nonage

Example Sentences

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The founding father of black humor in a new, splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred.

From Time Magazine Archive

His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thou art in this world in the nonage of thy being—Eternity is the soul’s immortal manhood.

From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

In my nonage I believed humanity could be reformed if only it were intelligently preached at for a sufficiently long period.

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Its magnates looked forward confidently to its development as a town—nay, perchance as a city of ten thousand inhabitants, when it purposes to assume a new name, as risen from nonage.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely