Thesaurus / stripling
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The bellicose ardor of the stripling seemed to strike the royal envoy even more forcibly than anything he had yet seen.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEOh, what a foolish stripling Am I, who here about four days have wandered In quest of a mere phantom!
THE DEATH OF BALDERJOHANNES EWALDAn ambitious stripling has only to brandish his sword and shout a few magniloquent words to induce them to rush to certain death.
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOYGoodness is proper to the aged; it is their sole glory; why should this milky stripling bring it into disrepute?
THE FIEND'S DELIGHTDOD GRILEI went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVISBut only consider what glory this stripling must have acquired, to have actually fired a gun and broke a pigeon's leg!
THE BIRD AND INSECTS' POST OFFICEROBERT BLOOMFIELDMediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.
HEROES OF THE TELEGRAPHJ. MUNROThe fat, tender, succulent dooryard stripling turned out to be a monster that would devour the earth.
A YEAR IN THE FIELDSJOHN BURROUGHSHe had been taken to France when a stripling, and was much bound to the whites, though living with his own tribe.
LAZARREMARY HARTWELL CATHERWOODThe slimness of his waist was filled in so well that he looked no more than a well-grown, clean-limbed stripling of twenty.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETTWORDS RELATED TO STRIPLING
- adolescent
- anklebiter
- babe
- baby
- bairn
- bambino
- brat
- bud
- cherub
- chick
- cub
- descendant
- dickens
- imp
- infant
- innocent
- issue
- juvenile
- kid
- kiddie
- lamb
- little angel
- little darling
- little doll
- little one
- minor
- mite
- moppet
- neonate
- nestling
- newborn
- nipper
- nursling
- offspring
- preteen
- progeny
- pubescent
- shaver
- small fry
- sprout
- squirt
- stripling
- suckling
- tadpole
- teen
- teenager
- teenybopper
- toddler
- tyke
- urchin
- whippersnapper
- young one
- youngster
- youth
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