stripling

Not since 1996, when Roy was a stripling of 24, have all 12 required appropriations bills been separately signed into law.

Nevertheless, both brothers, Castor and Pollux, were often called “sons of Zeus”; indeed, the Greek name they are best known by, the Dioscouri, means “the striplings of Zeus.”

After a quick consultation with his staff, the enchanter decides that this stripling is sufficiently pure of heart to inherit his powers.

HL Tau, a mere stripling of a star no more than 1 million years old, was swaddled in a surprise.

The knights you have chosen to follow me are stout fellows and bear the command of a stripling with good humor.