nonage

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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

Plain realism, as in Gorky's "Nachtasyl" and the war stories of Ambrose Bierce, simply wearies us by its vacuity; plain romance, if we ever get beyond our nonage, makes us laugh.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

During Nero's nonage he was persevering in his studies and made great progress in Greek.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

An infantile captive wields certain coercions to fair treatment peculiar to nonage.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas