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

That assumption of mannishness which sat so prettily on his nonage was rendered inconspicuous by his majority.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

So far, we are in Sussex pure and simple; mangolds all around, cattle sheds in front, a Sussex farmer for a companion, the sky of Sussex over all, and the twentieth century in her nonage.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

But they who so use this saying simply remand us to the childhood of the church, to the spiritual nonage of the ante-Pentecostal days.

From The Ministry of the Spirit by Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson)