nonage
Example Sentences
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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
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
She would say now that it was in her nonage that she did it.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
A standing council was appointed to carry on the administration during his nonage.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William
The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
