The pleasant decade in which she'd come to young womanhood seemed almost an illusion now.

"That was where I spent my young womanhood," she said.

Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in rough scenes and under strange conditions.

The smell* of excited young womanhood was sweet and irresistible in his nostrils.

Before her eyes Centaine was making that wonderful transformation from girl to young womanhood.

He had seen her develop into beautiful young womanhood.

"What does count is that this child be allowed to grow to a healthy young womanhood."

She was just catching the bloom of young womanhood, at an early age.

As for the rest-it was new; a product of her passage into young womanhood.

Yet it gives a completely new spin to the notion of young womanhood.