heyday of youth

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Now and then, a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

A group of six young people was represented, all in the very heyday of youth.

From The Old Folks' Party 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

The Squire's wife Abigail, like many a small, dark woman who has never shown in her looks the true heyday of youth, had apparently not aged nor altered at all.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

With others this feature in the marriage fellowship becomes relatively less as the heyday of youth subsides, and the moral and mental bonds become more various and extensive.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

I suppose disparity in marriages is generally condemned for kindred reasons, one has gone by the heyday of youth, and the other should be in it.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie