But why would I trade a man for an untried youth?

He laughed, and Karatek, the father of three, flushed deeply at being relegated to the ranks of untried youths.

Lytol had worked too hard and long to make Ruatha prosper to take second place to the bumblings of an untried youth.

He wasn't some untried, wet-behind-the-ears youth with no control to speak of.

Disgusted to find himself mooning like an untried youth, he jerked his hand away.

When he arrived off our coast in the summer of 1015 with a fleet of Danish ships, many thought him little more than an untried youth.

I have no fear of an untried youth and will be more than willing to kill you, if you so desire.

But now, beneath Lynn's touch, he was worse than an untried youth.

An untried youth of noble blood, he was neither soldier nor officer.

As a ruler she may have been reluctant to entrust decision making powers to an untried youth.