younker

• Well, well, if I thought the trade would not suffer, I would soon rid you of this younker--as soon, that is, as you send me word that he is under lock and key It so happened that at the very moment when Colonel Mannering and Dominie Sampson had gone to Edinburgh to see after an inheritance, Brown, or rather young Bertram (to give his real name), had succeeded in crossing the Solway in a sailing-boat, and was safe in Cumberland Mannering's mission was one of kindliness to his guest, Lucy Bertram. —  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
• But speak up, younker, an' tell me who sent yuh wid the letter My father did, McGee," Phil went on, striving to keep the tremor from his voice. —  Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
• And it angered McGee to think that his authority was questioned in the least Yuh knows right well, younker, as how I cain't read!" —  Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
• He repeated the call several times without response It may be the younker is asleep, or, if he hears me, he may take me fur Motoza; and yet that couldn't be, for our voices don't sound alike Once more he produced his rubber safe and struck a match, holding the twinkling flame above his head as he slowly moved forward into the cavern. —  Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3)
• Try an easy-looking similitude How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind How like a prodigal doth she return With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind And, if the man who writes this nervous Saxon, writes elsewhere No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine that also is a lesson to those who have any notion of what is meant by the right word in the right place To me Shakespeare is the most stupendously eloquent man who ever set pen to paper. —  Platform Monologues

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