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stripling

How to use stripling in a sentence

The bellicose ardor of the stripling seemed to strike the royal envoy even more forcibly than anything he had yet seen.

Oh, what a foolish stripling Am I, who here about four days have wandered In quest of a mere phantom!

An ambitious stripling has only to brandish his sword and shout a few magniloquent words to induce them to rush to certain death.

Goodness is proper to the aged; it is their sole glory; why should this milky stripling bring it into disrepute?

I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs.

But only consider what glory this stripling must have acquired, to have actually fired a gun and broke a pigeon's leg!

Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.

The fat, tender, succulent dooryard stripling turned out to be a monster that would devour the earth.

He had been taken to France when a stripling, and was much bound to the whites, though living with his own tribe.

LAZARREMARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD

The 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) CROCKETT

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985