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

England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.

From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry

As the land cannot be sold during their nonage he humbly begs that the land may be extended and prays that some allowance may be made for the education of the children.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William

The youth in his nonage, and the gray-haired and very aged man were there.

From The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession by Aughey, John H.