stripling

• On the 19th of April, 1775, being then less than eighteen years of age, the stripling was at the plough, when tidings reached him of the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord. —  Sketches and Studies
• I soon saw that I was mistaken: that the prince was a young stripling, and did not meet expectations. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
• Peter was an attractive stripling, his brown hair a contrast to his blond siblings. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
• Such regal influence was far from preordained when the king came to the throne as a stripling, the American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner. —  The Economist: Correspondent's diary
• Immediately after the arrival of the blacksmith and his pretty sister at Pine Point settlement, a tall stout young stripling--a trapper--about a year older than herself, fell deeply in love with Mary West--that being Mrs Marston's maiden name. —  The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains

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