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

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

The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Though in my nonage I have seen A world of taking faces, I had not age or wit to ken Their several hidden graces.

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by Briscoe, John Potter