Younger

Examples

• The surplus he holds merely as custodian, and it is passed on to the younger members of the community as necessity demands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It may be that in the younger people it does not have an importance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Next I reflected that Frederick Lamb was younger than the Prince; but then again, a Prince of Wales! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• What I had to do, was, to turn the painful discipline of my younger days to account, by going to work with a resolute and steady heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If you do, and I were twenty years younger, I would give your father one thousand guineas for you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When younger, said he, I felt as if I were destined for some great enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The younger ones out before the elder ones are married! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I am younger than you would think, to look at me, but I am well used to it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The younger brother impatiently rejoined, 'With twelve o'clock? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When I was younger, I could have done it alone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This the younger scions know and feel, and at heart they all rebel against the injustice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The mother had not been so well pleased, perhaps, had the rival been better looking, younger, more affectionate, warmer-hearted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The popular idea of the electric light is, that it is a very recent invention, since even the younger generation remembers when there was no such thing in general use. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The thoughtless riot, dissipation, and debauchery of his younger days produced fever and delirium. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These chaps would sell their younger brothers if they had a chance, I think. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• With her younger sister, or in writing or drawing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I haunted them, as my memory had often done, and lingered among them as my younger thoughts had lingered when I was far away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Quietly, quietly, the face subsided into a far younger likeness of her own than she had ever seen under the grey hair, and sank to rest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He is younger than she, you know, began Mrs. March, but Jo broke in. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Younger sons cannot marry where they like. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Perdita was to become the pupil, friend and younger sister of Evadne. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mrs. Pryor, sitting in the background, did not come within the range of his glance, but the two younger ladies had the full benefit thereof. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such a girl as that would win my heart, if I were thirty years younger. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The eyes of the younger man rested on the face of the elder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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