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

But this is no longer a child-nation, irresponsible in its nonage and incapable of comprehending or assuming the responsibilities of its acts.

From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Reid, Whitelaw

Marriages are usually arranged by mothers in nonage, but consulting the destined bride.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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