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Sentence Examples
The police officer, a mere stripling of 35, was called to a nursing home where the woman was visiting a friend.
With some help from Mario whom even as a stripling I found pretty oleaginous, the French menu was interpreted.
Long ago, when Al was a mere stripling of 83, the Players Club gave him a testimonial.
Surely, though, there could be no such problem with filming a stripling of a novel, published a mere five years ago?
Karpov is 57, a mere stripling beside his rival, and little more than a decade ago he was close to his peak.
Despite his youth, a mere stripling at the age of 35, Nicholas Payton has already released eight records, and he won a Grammy award in 1997 for best solo jazz instrumental.
Not surprisingly, few museum curators jumped at the chance to give Neanderthal bones from their collections to a bunch of stripling geneticists who wanted to saw lumps off them.
To date, however, few of them had been elevated to positions of real power. The promotion of Prince Muhammad, a mere stripling at 53, has understandably sparked much speculation.
As an eternal stripling on whom time does not seem to have effect, Paul Masvidal talks to the audience, pretty rarely though, with a soft and calm voice.
For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.
He reached for the ivory handle of his ankus and turned to the stripling.
Examples from Classical Literature
A volunteer of the first-class, and a general epithet for a stripling in the service.
How could this stripling have learned what he had taken such pains to conceal?
So, stripling as he was, the lad faced the rascals with the courage of a lion.
A tall stripling of a Moravian youth, meagre as a sign-post, was the beerhouse Ganymede.
I cared not much for that, for surely I was a match for the stripling we meant to chase.
Then it was Ugh-lomi, the stripling, proved himself to have come to man's estate.
He came hither as conqueror, that mere stripling, belted and plaided as a Royal Stewart, and retook his kingdom.
Why, sir, in our taking this English stripling along with us on the morrow?
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.
A shorter clerk came behind the first, a taller clerk behind the second, a stripling of a dozen years rising behind the third.
The next bolt broke above the house, and the light it threw showed her the stripling split and lying on the ground.
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.
Why is it that Bacchus is always a stripling, and bushy-haired?
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.
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.
Then Robin grew angry, for no stripling likes to be taunted with his green years.
He was flat and slim in the waist as any stripling might have been.
Was this stripling of newfound liberty to possess the very earth?
Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt.
