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

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

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.

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

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