Youths
[juːðz] or [jʊθs]
Definition
(pl. ) of Youth
Typist: Rudy
Examples
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Youths are brought to him to be educated, and the whole character of his life has changed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- On the second trip they were accompanied by ten or fifteen other women and youths, who, it seemed, formed the retinues of the two chieftains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In a short time the two youths had become inseparable friends, experimenting together, and taking walks to the mines and quarries in the neighborhood of Penzance in search of minerals for study. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At the sixth round, there were almost as many fellows shouting out, Go it, Figs, as there were youths exclaiming, Go it, Cuff. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Youths, nobles of the land, performed for the sake of mother or sister, the services of menials with amiable cheerfulness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The youths of the little community had to remember that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Rudy