128 Metaphors for youths

The first youth is the common country-boy, whose race has been bred to bodily labor.

Youth was theirs, and that sunshine of the breast which puts a spirit of joy in everything.

I farther knew, that when youths had become clergymen through a great variety of mixed motives, bishops were selected out of these clergy on avowedly political grounds; it therefore amazed me how a man of good sense should be able to set up a duty of religious veneration towards bishops.

Ye youths and ye braves, skilled in wisdom, may you alone be our friends, while for a moment here we shall enjoy this house.

Youth with its white-flaming ideals is the great separator; by middle age most of us have become so shaken down, on life's rough road, to a certain equality of bearing and forbearing, that miscellaneous comradeship becomes easy and rather comforting; while extremely aged people are as compatible and as miserable as disabled old eagles, grouped with a few inches of each other's beaks and claws on the sleek perches of a cage.

The grown-up man could impart much of his knowledge of life, and of the favourite authors of the time, to a youth fresh from the Universitythough that youth was Wordsworth.

The adventurous youth became Lord Chancellor of England, and is best known as Lord Eldon; his brother William became Lord Stowell, and was for many years Judge of the High Court of Admiralty.

Dáráb married another wife, by whom he had another son, named Dárá; and when the youth was twenty years of age, the father died.

Our friend was capable of enthusiasm in highest measure, and in youth he surrendered himself wholly to it, the more actively and assiduously since, in his case, for several years that happy period was prolonged when within himself the youth feels the worth and the dignity of the most excellent, be it attainable or not.

" The fortunate youth became a very great personage, indeed, as by means of his great riches he was "lord of a hundred castles" and wide domains.

His youth was fast goingnay, had it not indeed gone from him for ever? had not youth left him all at once when he began his commercial career?and the pleasures that had been fresh enough within the last few years were rapidly growing stale.

Little did the moody and jealous King imagine that the youth whom he had brought from obscurity to amuse his melancholy hours by his music, and probably his wit and humor, would so soon, by his own sanction, become the champion of Israel, and ultimately his successor on the throne.

The wind rose a little, a heavy swell stirred the lake and their light craft swayed with vigor, but the two youths were expert canoemen, none better in all the wilderness, and it shipped no water.

"My youth, holy father, will be my best protection.

Laura, after the "midsummer night's dream" that often comes to girls of seventeen, woke up to find that youth and love were no match for age and common sense.

W or y is called a consonant when it precedes a vowel heard in the same syllable; as in wine, twine, whine; ye, yet, youth: in all other cases, these letters are vowels; as in Yssel, Ystadt, yttria; newly, dewy, eyebrow.

The youth and the girl were the Hunter and the beautiful, blond Lisbeth.

Neither Lady Maud nor her father liked what Mr. Van Torp called a 'circus'; and besides, the modern youths and maids who delight in practical jokes were not the people whose good opinion about the millionaire it was desired to obtain, or to strengthen, as the case might be.

This day, they say, is call'd Holyrood-day, And all the youth are now a-nutting gone.

But youth, sir, is not my only crime; I have been accused of acting a theatrical parta theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of gesture, or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, and an adoption of the opinions and language of another man.

The youth and industry of the former are miracles, too, yet still more credible.

And so it came to pass; for the said youth became a brother and lived in the Order in great sanctity.

But youth and sorrow are seldom companions for long, and our last glimpse of Oliver is of a boy as thoroughly happy as one often is.

These youths were for imperial rule unfit: A king of royal lineage and worth The state required, and none could he remember Save Tahmasp's son, descended from the blood Of Feridún.

They did not dare make a hostile move; there was something about Desmond in his transformed appearance that froze themindeed, even his youth was a mystery to them, for he acted like a man who had had years of experience.

128 Metaphors for  youths