In our nonage, sleep was a hindrance to our adventures and plans. From LearnThat.org.
In my nonage I used to carry grudges, when I matured I got even, now in my dotage I get ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere] Reference
Missouri from a state of nonage to a maturity for self-Government, and for a membership in the Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
Verily, the citizens, including those of even nonage meeting together, asked one another these questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
In a better possible world, houses of worship would never be welcome, but only tolerated as remnants of humanity's nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Levine: Of Mosques and Marriage] Reference
'Slasher' -- the Tipton Slasher, William Perry, who in the days of my nonage kept the Champion of England public-house in my native parish of. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
For the same reason we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. From Wordnik.com. [On Liberty] Reference
Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
As the land cannot be sold during their nonage he humbly begs that the land may be extended and prays that some allowance may be made for the education of the children. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Guilbert Ralston, one of the seven sons of a rich merchant prince who as youths terrorized the countryside (we are not told where it is) disappears "while still in his nonage.". From Wordnik.com. [“Living hand to mouth. . .”] Reference
Ante-Pentecostal days: spiritual nonage of. From Wordnik.com. [The Ministry of the Spirit] Reference
I date from my nonage, I must have laid up no state secrets. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference
It recalled an ideal feminine head much looked at in my nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Ma Pettengill] Reference
Round centuries on centuries have wheeled by: -- has all this been its nonage?. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
Tom is an old friend of mine; I have seen some of his best battles in my nonage. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
During Nero's nonage he was persevering in his studies and made great progress in. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03] Reference
A standing council was appointed to carry on the administration during his nonage. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
An infantile captive wields certain coercions to fair treatment peculiar to nonage. From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
Although in his 'nonage,' Arundel wrote, the Earl was by no means 'of the smallest hope.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
The Prince of Wales's travels in his nonage have made Telemachus a tortoise, and the young. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
"He was a very bashful young man," said an old lady, whom he used to visit when they were both in their nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference
Ambrose Bierce, simply wearies us by its vacuity; plain romance, if we ever get beyond our nonage, makes us laugh. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
"Why," asked Collier, "should the man laugh at the mischief of the boy, and make the disorders of his nonage his own, by an after approbation?". From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
He secured as the price of his ostentatious fidelity the custody of the Honour of Huntingdon, during the nonage of the earl, his nephew, John the Scot. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
So far back as 1227 advantage had been taken of Henry's majority to exact large sums of money for the confirmation of all charters sealed during his nonage. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
I do not believe such a boy breathes out of Spain, where I hope he will grow up to the Oriental calm of so many of his countrymen, and rest from the toils of his nonage. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
The theatre was what chiefly lured him; he had written plays in his nonage, and he now proposed to do them on a large scale, and so get some of the easy dollars of Broadway. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
In its nonage, when man was yet a fallible being, and doubted the accuracy of his own intellect, appeals were made to heaven in dark and doubtful cases of atrocious accusation. From Wordnik.com. [The Crayon Papers] Reference
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