stripling

They should be striplings, if possible, but do not pass over anyone suspected of talent.

He walked under a canopy carried by four male striplings.

They give it to the striplings they do not trust before battle.

From the farmhouse issued two men, a stout woman and a pair of striplings.

They were mostly old men, grey and bent, or uninitiated striplings.

By thirty over half of the pipe-stemmed striplings had collapsed in the dust.

Old men, old women, and clusters of strange striplings.

The red banner waved in the centre of the line, carried by two Dervish striplings.

Androgynous striplings who outlined each other's bones in lipstick.

The other two were uncles, identical downy-faced striplings about her own age, obviously twins.

"He gave me this, a long time ago, when we were still striplings on Kraelia.

Peasants by the side of the road, old men and striplings and women, called questions to the travelers as they tramped along.

"I didn't come here to terrorize women and striplings, or to drive them from their hovels.

Some were old and famous, some were mere striplings.

From age ten to twenty, the males are called "striplings," and the females, "maidens."

They wait in Sherwood, with the older men and striplings, where they bide in safety.

The little boys ranged from babes to striplings, some of them of an age with your little Ronald.

Moth had played the game of wits and treachery for centuries before these striplings had ever been born.

She was joined shortly by three more striplings, one well-dressed and confident, two sweating and nervous.

Inos counted twenty-five of them, from graybeards to striplings.

Doddering old growlers, pimply striplings, and now this!

He thought the force was composed of striplings barely blooded in Dosadi's cruel necessities.

"Well now, I'll be blasted if I'll let a bunch of green striplings in fake uniforms manipulate me!

A hard veteran full of cool valour and ring-craft, could give ten or fifteen years and a beating to most striplings.

The Voulash Gannets were a young team lacking all reputation; the players seemed striplings.