young-man

Maybe because my young-man days are in the receding past, my thoughts aren't turning to love this spring.

David Finkle: I'm a Yo-Yo, You're a Yo-Yo 2009

But I, considering the great mischiefe of this wicked queane, devised with my selfe how I might reveale the matter to my Master, and by kicking away the cover of the binne (where like a Snaile the young-man was couched) to make her whoredome apparent and knowne.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

The young-man who was the comeliest of all the adulterers, ran away, and did nothing else that night save onely bewaile his striped and painted buttockes.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

And for at least the tenth time he told me how in his young-man soldiering days he came upon the spring whose waters have since become world-famous.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

I imagine Mr. AGATE'S picture of young-man life in the Manchester of the nineties to be very much like the real thing.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Various

And then she asked the young-man the accomplishment of his promise, but he to rid himselfe entirely from her hands, would find alwayes excuses, till in the end she understood by the messengers that came in and out, that he nothing regarded her.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

The traces of young-man humanitarianism had sloughed off, and he talked like an intelligent and embittered boy.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

It sent her on her knees at night to pray for Jim's happiness in some young-man heaven which would please him.

The Breaking Point Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

They were seated on the icy ground and on the drifts of snow and on the rocks, singing a warlike song that made the heart of the young-man stand still, in dread.

Indian Why Stories 1915

At the tree the young-man turned down the stream and in the dark easily found his way along the bank.

Indian Why Stories 1915