heyday of youth

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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

In the heyday of youth, both had been extremely handsome.

From Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. by Flaubert, Gustave

Young Puffington was then in the heyday of youth, about one-and-twenty or so, fair-haired, fresh-complexioned, slim, and standing, with the aid of high-heeled boots, little under six feet high.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

It was not as a middle-aged bon viveur, nor as an elderly hypochondriac, that he began his medical studies, but in the heyday of youth, and quite seriously, too.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

But that it was fully adopted by him in the heyday of youth and in possession of an intellect as penetrating as his feeling was ardent, is not to be believed.

From Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by Mackie, John Milton