heyday of youth

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She was rather tall than otherwise, and the contour of her head and shoulders denoted a girl in the heyday of youth and activity.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas

And yet no young rake, in the heyday of youth and the riot of hot blood, could have been more overjoyed at the falling to him of a fortune than was this sad-faced old maid.

From Miss Ludington's Sister by Bellamy, Edward

To a girl in the heyday of youth and beauty the life of a religieuse seems ridiculous.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie

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

But that it was fully adopted by him in the heyday of youth and in possession of an intellect as penetrating as his feeling was ardent, is not to be believed.

From Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by Mackie, John Milton