unlicked cub
Example Sentences
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He looked a terribly unlicked cub, and Winn found himself watching anxiously to see if Claire ate enough and the right things.
From The Dark Tower by J. H. Gardner Soper
When he was a green, uncouth, unlicked cub of a boy, like you, Stephen, he had made them.
From How to Do It by Edward Everett Hale
"He seemed a very unlicked cub," was all my reply.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
She hasn't any people to speak of, and she's up here now with a rotten, unlicked cub of a brother.
From The Dark Tower by J. H. Gardner Soper
My old acquaintance, Charles Boldenough, was pronounced to be, by the tutors, as well as by the students of D—— College, "the most unlicked cub" who ever misconstrued Virgil.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
