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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Stripling? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| With some help from Mario whom even as a stripling I found pretty oleaginous, the French menu was interpreted. |
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| Long ago, when Al was a mere stripling of 83, the Players Club gave him a testimonial. |
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| Surely, though, there could be no such problem with filming a stripling of a novel, published a mere five years ago? |
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| The police officer, a mere stripling of 35, was called to a nursing home where the woman was visiting a friend. |
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| For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs. |
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| He reached for the ivory handle of his ankus and turned to the stripling. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Why, sir, in our taking this English stripling along with us on the morrow? |
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| I cared not much for that, for surely I was a match for the stripling we meant to chase. |
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| A tall stripling of a Moravian youth, meagre as a sign-post, was the beerhouse Ganymede. |
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| So, stripling as he was, the lad faced the rascals with the courage of a lion. |
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| Then it was Ugh-lomi, the stripling, proved himself to have come to man's estate. |
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| A volunteer of the first-class, and a general epithet for a stripling in the service. |
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| He came hither as conqueror, that mere stripling, belted and plaided as a Royal Stewart, and retook his kingdom. |
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| How could this stripling have learned what he had taken such pains to conceal? |
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| A shorter clerk came behind the first, a taller clerk behind the second, a stripling of a dozen years rising behind the third. |
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| The next bolt broke above the house, and the light it threw showed her the stripling split and lying on the ground. |
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| Why is it that Bacchus is always a stripling, and bushy-haired? |
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| After the lapse of a few moments the stripling re-entered the house with an aged islander, who might have been taken for old Hippocrates himself. |
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| I have seen a brawny, fellow, with no lack of ordinary courage, fairly quail before this slender stripling, when in one of his curious fits. |
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| I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. |
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| Then Robin grew angry, for no stripling likes to be taunted with his green years. |
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| He was flat and slim in the waist as any stripling might have been. |
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| Was this stripling of newfound liberty to possess the very earth? |
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| Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt. |
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| He was a comely, well-knit stripling, and as soon as he was strong enough to walk his chief delight was to go with his father into the forest. |
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