nonage

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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

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

Plain realism, as in Gorky's "Nachtasyl" and the war stories of Ambrose Bierce, simply wearies us by its vacuity; plain romance, if we ever get beyond our nonage, makes us laugh.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

Now's but the nonage of My paines, My feares Are yett but hopes, weake as my infant yeares.10 6.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

A standing council was appointed to carry on the administration during his nonage.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William