juvenilities

There was no question of the sentimental juvenilities of children crying for light.

Voltaire 2007

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them -- and by laughing at them destroy them?

The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916

I heartily wish I had any verses which with a clear mind I could send you in lieu of these juvenilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them -- and by laughing at them destroy them?

The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872

One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.

Following the Equator — Part 1 Mark Twain 1872

Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it.

Life on the Mississippi 1870

I heartily wish I had any verses which with a clear mind I could send you in lieu of these juvenilities.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

In fact, Diane enjoyed these delightful juvenilities all the more keenly because she knew that she could put an end to them at any moment.

Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Honor�� de Balzac 1824