heyday of youth

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I suppose disparity in marriages is generally condemned for kindred reasons, one has gone by the heyday of youth, and the other should be in it.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

On I went, merrily withal, for it was the heyday of youth and strength, making steadily eastwards for the southern extremity of the Grampians, which rose in grand outline before me, forty miles away.

From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by Westgarth, William

Passing over a score of years, he again introduces us to the guardsmen, whom he left in the heyday of youth, and who have now attained, most of them passed, the sober age of forty.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

Now and then, a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

After years of emptiness and dullness and suppression, she had come suddenly, in the heyday of youth, into freedom and power.

From Queen Victoria by Strachey, Giles Lytton