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

England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.

From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry

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

Byron's earliest satire, English Bards and Scots Reviewers, is a clever piece of work, but compared with the great trio above-named is a production of his nonage.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant