Youngster

Examples

• When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He's quite a youngster, said the Saracen apologetically, and you must excuse him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Damme, I'm as flat as a juryman; and should have gone to sleep, as fast as Newgate, if I hadn't had the good natur' to amuse this youngster. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This other youngster had seized hold of the Waterloo medal which the Corporal wore, and was examining it with delight. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Brooke, who was walking in front with Celia, turned his head, and said-- Who is that youngster, Casaubon? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have said to myself, 'If there is a likelihood of that youngster doing himself harm, why should you interfere? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We parted company, and left the youngster lying in a ditch. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You were a small youngster then. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is unlikely that a youngster like Adair would at once make a hideous scandal by exposing a well known man so much older than himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Still, nobody appeared, to claim the dusty youngster from Blunderstone, Suffolk. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Come, keep the fire up there, youngsters. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And what a zany an old chap must be, to light a bonfire when there's no youngsters to please. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Typed by Lesley