newly-fledged

“Oh, he has a black moustache and whiskers, and his chin is shaved,” said the newly-fledged baron cordially.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

Joseph Smith and his son-in-law Mr John Jones, instead of the Earl of Brentford and the Right Honourable Robert Kennedy, some readers will perhaps doubt, and may doubt also whether an application coming from some newly-fledged barrister would have been received as graciously as that made by Mr Low, Q.C. and M.P. — who would probably himself soon sit on some lofty legal bench.

Phineas Redux 2004

And I, walking in the very midst of these people, young and newly-fledged as I was, had already forgotten the very look of happiness.

Hunger 2003

Without such a programme the country's newly-fledged democracy would not survive.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

Lord Elton, after a word of apology to my friend, told her he was aware they were _nouveaux riches_ when invited; but that Jones, a newly-fledged M.P., had also much influence, and he wished to make use of him; so had persuaded Lady Elton to send them cards.

A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

[Illustration: Conrad recognised an old comrade, John Hillner.] 'Do I look better now,' asked the newly-fledged soldier, 'than in my blue apron and coloured jerkin, in the days when I handled the plane and square?'

The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War Anonymous

Some thirty years ago, Don Agustín Yturbide, the first and last Emperor of Mexico, found that he wanted a palace wherein to house his newly-fledged dignity; and began to build one accordingly, in the high street of Mexico, close to the great convent of San Francisco.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

La Salle unconcernedly turned to the newly-fledged commander, and said, --

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Dora would open a school somewhere, wherever she might chance to find the indispensable children, while Posey, accompanied by his newly-fledged father-in-law, if perchance that worthy individual should be spared, would launch into the mines and conquer Fortune at the point of the pick.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

The old lady, however, dying some little time after, he, feeling no longer bound by any tie at home, and having indeed sacrificed his own wishes for her sake, incontinently gave up his newly-fledged dignity of "Doctor" Garry

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin