So it happens that those in whom growth ceases early (probably because of an earlier and more vigorous invasion of the internal secretion system by the interstitial cell product), develop mental maturity more rapidly and possess more of it than those in whom growth continues.

Although intellectual maturity is reached at an earlier age in the sunny South than in the fog-haunted lands of Northern Europe, Lorenzo had enjoyed a long apprenticeship before being called to undertake the duties devolving on him as the uncrowned king of Florence.

Emotional maturity: the development and dynamics of personality.

They two, blooming youth and vigorous maturity, so healthy, so gay, so happy, made a radiant couple.

Both of these women are large and brawny, unlike the Fates of Pheidias, in their muscular maturity.

Then their dignified maturity limbered up a little.

It is in the nature of the wasp to attain to effective maturity before the domestic fowland in fact of all the creatures that werethrough the generous carelessness of the Skinnerspartaking of the benefits Mr. Bensington heaped upon his hens, the wasps were the first to make any sort of figure in the world.

The present picture by one of Akbar's greatest Hindu artists illustrates the sensitive naturalism which from antecedents in Khurasan came to elegant maturity in Mughal India between 1585 and 1600.

Only the hardiest reach maturity and old age.

And yet the position was such that all the strength I had acquired through ten years of constant practice in the field and in the chase, all the power of a frame in healthful maturity, and of muscles whose force seemed doubled by the tension of the nerves, hardly availed.

The writer has attended at the birth of puppies, not one of whom has shown the remotest sign of having a worm, and the puppies have almost galloped into healthy, happy maturity, protected from all the usual canine ailments by constitutions impervious to disease.

Let your daughter have had her daylet her have come to an incredible maturity.

The nation stood like an oak in the full strength of its leafy maturity; and to this strength the Reformation is indebted for its accomplishment.

It is this style which thirty or forty years later comes to luxuriant maturity in a series of illustrations executed at Udaipur.[80]

She comes to maidenly maturity under the impression which strengthens into belief that madness is her heritage.

Our politician had time, during a few years of absence from his native country, and while the din of war and the cries of party-spirit "were lost over a wide and unhearing ocean," to recover from his surprise and from a temporary alienation of mind; and to return in spirit, and in the mild and mellowed maturity of age, to the principles and attachments of his early life.

He flourished in a perennial maturity, an immortal middle-age.

When Mahomet succeeded to the sultanate he was but twenty-one years old, but had already given proof of great talents, learning, and ambition, all guided by a judgment of remarkable maturity.

With this age of pain came cries of helplessness, cries made the more piteous by the remembrance of his impetuous youth and his ripe maturity.

"Well," said Ranney, "I suspect that generally lawyers, desirable as partners, if they wish them, will be already supplied, and then, when one could secure an eligible connection of this kind, the danger is, that he would be overshadowed and dwarfed, and always relying on his senior, would never come to a robust maturity.

Yet there was an expression about the face that suggested much experience, a sort of settled maturity and seriousness.

The thyroid and thymus are antagonistic, for the thyroid hastens differentiation, puberty and the coming of sexual maturity, while the thymus delays and retards them and prolongs the period of childhood.

When the horse had finished eating the grain, Waring picketed him in a fresh spot and climbed back to the ledge, where he sat watching the western wall of the cañon, occasionally glancing up as some dim star burned through the deepening dusk and bloomed to a silvery maturity.

But many words are born in an entirely normal way; have a grubby boyhood, a vigorous youth, and a sober maturity; marry, beget sons and daughters, become old, enfeebled, even senile; and suffer neglect, if not death.

A precocious boy of sixteen years of age, he had the promise of a brilliant young manhood and a splendid maturity.