nonage
Example Sentences
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His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The founding father of black humor in a new, splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred.
From Time Magazine Archive
The youth in his nonage, and the gray-haired and very aged man were there.
From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by Aughey, John H.
An infantile captive wields certain coercions to fair treatment peculiar to nonage.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas
That assumption of mannishness which sat so prettily on his nonage was rendered inconspicuous by his majority.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
