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

That assumption of mannishness which sat so prettily on his nonage was rendered inconspicuous by his majority.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

The Prince of Wales's travels in his nonage have made Telemachus a tortoise, and the young Anacharsis a stay-at-home.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

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)