There I was, a mere stripling of a lad, doing one of his first cameras. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Thus then I should meet this titled stripling -- the son of my father's friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
I wasn't exactly what you'd call a stripling of a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Let This Entertain You: 'Gypsy,' 50 Years Later] Reference
Thus then I should meet this titled stripling — the son of my father’s friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
This looked like the kind of stripling, head-nodding assemblage who'd usually be found down at one of Sullivan Hall's jam band shows. From Wordnik.com. [The Stirrer] Reference
'stripling' when he attended a Yearly Meeting of Friends held at. From Wordnik.com. [A Visit to the United States in 1841] Reference
"It came to me yesterday," murmured the stripling. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Clay a stripling of twenty, Webster a boy of fifteen. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
On seeing the minister, the stripling was about to retire. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
And the king said, "Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.". From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Grant also wants Spurs right-back stripling Kyle Walker on loan. From Wordnik.com. [Football transfer rumours: Charles N'Zogbia to Birmingham?] Reference
Still the Captain continued, unheeding the words of the stripling. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
Nothing was heard in the room but the hurrying pen of the stripling. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
David was only a stripling shepherd-boy when he immortalised himself. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Something in the case of this unfortunate stripling interested Frisbie. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
I was a stripling lad den and boy-like I got to see and hear everything. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Had this stripling accomplished what older and stronger men had failed in?. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Left him for a stripling of a slave -- a mere creature from the public market. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Truly these arms here are not good, O Conchobar my master," the stripling cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
Wood of Winchester, afterward governor of Virginia, but then little more than a stripling. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Local patriotism is but a stripling David in face of the Goliaths of modern commercialism. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Garst, whose inches his juniors had hitherto coveted, was but a stripling beside Herb Heal. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
A few stripling clerks appeared with belated offers of assistance, but Jim waved them back. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Line War] Reference
I see the circuit of the landfall and go along the moebius stripling of the landfall at last. From Wordnik.com. [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference
This stripling, who was at least five years my junior, proposed to me out of sheer gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
The Gujarati must seem to them much more formidable than the stripling against whom he was plotting. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
I had escaped the rain, but they had not; they came in dripping: a stout man, and a tall, lank stripling. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Put another way, Hubble is seeing galaxies as they were when the universe was a 2-billion-year-old stripling. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards From The Edge] Reference
The obedient stripling came eagerly, and knelt as close to his master as he dared -- just so as to touch him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The strain was terrific for a mere stripling of his build, and only old seasoned veterans could stand under it. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
I do not know how she turned all in one instant from a sun-burned stripling to a great lady, but that was what occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The delights of the capital made a strong impression on the mind of the stripling, and he ardently wished to remain there. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
At length a stripling, in a sailor's jacket, entered the manufactory and said, "he was come to settle his father's affairs.". From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference
Afghanistan, a stripling; in my hand the staff I used in my divinations, in the bag slung at my side a single change of raiment. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Destiny] Reference
But the rank and file were pines; gray grenadiers, still upright with the years; young stripling pines, eager to be on the march. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
After some search, the duchess found a stripling whom she thought had all the qualities requisite to personate the unfortunate prince. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
I am deeply in earnest, Zuleika, and could not bear to be treated as a thoughtless, headlong stripling, who did not know his own mind. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
My entertainer, in fact, was no other than Francine Joliet, grown from a little female stripling into a distracting pattern of a woman. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
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