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

He resigned his crown to Kenred, his nephew, brother to our saint, having been chosen king only on account of the nonage of that prince.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

The young Giant was out of his nonage; and those who wished to grapple with him must do it in the Court of Quarter Sessions—where he defied them.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Politics certainly played a great part in moulding Moore's feelings and imagination, and it should be observed that his nonage almost coincided with the duration of Ireland's independent Parliament.

From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius