stripling's

To check with death this stripling's pride, For whom my queen this fatal draught prepares,

Ion 2008

To check with death this stripling's pride, For whom my queen this fatal draught prepares,

Ion 2008

And o'er the stripling's glowing heart, extending far and wide,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

_ Fool! that person and those virtues of which you vaunt, are with me his worst offences -- they have undone my love and marred my fortunes -- the easy heart of Geraldine is captivated by the stripling's specious outside, while his talents and achievements secure him with the uncle undivided favour.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

Thyrsis had a good deal of patriotism left in him, and might have been angered by this stripling's contempt; but the stripling spoke with such quiet assurance, and his contempt was so boundless as to frighten one.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

That day and the following days, he woke up several times and, each time, he saw the stripling's pale face, his thin lips and his dark eyes, with the hard look in them:

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

It would not be true to say that he never thought lewdly of her; he would have thought lewdly of an angel or a vestal maid; that was ingrain in the composition of the man; but he thought well of her as he had never thought well of women before since he first scorched his stripling's fingers, and he would have killed twenty men to keep her from hearing a foul word.

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

The innocent, unconscious glance of the stripling's eyes was sufficient to set up a cowardly trembling in his body, -- and turning round abruptly so that even this stray youth might not observe him too closely, he hurried away.

The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

At the same her kind eyes sweetly granted me a stripling's acquittal -- oh! why did it have to be a stripling's?

The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

Putting forth a hand, she caught the stripling's ear and pinched it shrewdly.

Veranilda George Gissing 1880