Nonage

If that happen in their nonage, which is probable, appoint commendatories to discharge the duty for them for a laudable allowance, but gathering the fruits for the support of your grandchildren, till they come to virility to be consecrated, '&c. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

In a better possible world, houses of worship would never be welcome, but only tolerated as remnants of humanity's nonage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Guilbert Ralston, one of the seven sons of a rich merchant prince who as youths terrorized the countryside (we are not told where it is) disappears "while still in his nonage." ❋ Unknown (2008)

You and I would, you know, become men and women, while we were yet scarcely more than children — We have run, while yet in our nonage, through the passions and adventures of youth, and therefore we are now old before our day, and the winter of our life has come on ere its summer was well begun. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

I find that, during my nonage, I had the reputation of a very sullen youth, but was always a favourite of my schoolmaster, who used to say, “that my parts were solid, and would wear well.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

In my nonage I used to carry grudges, when I matured I got even, now in my dotage I get ahead. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For we cannot deny the church of God both in Asia and Africa, if we do not forget the peregrinations of the apostles, the deaths of the martyrs, the sessions of many and (even in our reformed judgment) lawful councils, held in those parts in the minority and nonage of ours. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some statutes specify how people get married; these generally include both procedural requirements and who can get married, including prohibitions on consanguinity, nonage, and same-sex status in many states. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For the same reason we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. ❋ Brink, David (2007)

I do not believe such a boy breathes out of Spain, where I hope he will grow up to the Oriental calm of so many of his countrymen, and rest from the toils of his nonage. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And now I began to breathe freely, I plainly saw the end of my probation approaching: a short excursion to France, a happy meeting with Milly, and then a delightful residence with Cousin Monica for the remainder of by nonage. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Society has had absolute power over them during all the early portion of their existence: it has had the whole period of childhood and nonage in which to try whether it could make them capable of rational conduct in life. ❋ Unknown (2002)

For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. ❋ Unknown (2002)

So far, we are in Sussex pure and simple; mangolds all around, cattle sheds in front, a Sussex farmer for a companion, the sky of Sussex over all, and the twentieth century in her nonage. ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)

Missouri from a state of nonage to a maturity for self-Government, and for a membership in the Union. ❋ Various (N/A)

'Slasher' -- the Tipton Slasher, William Perry, who in the days of my nonage kept the Champion of England public-house in my native parish of ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared. ❋ Various (N/A)

As the land cannot be sold during their nonage he humbly begs that the land may be extended and prays that some allowance may be made for the education of the children. ❋ William Painter (N/A)