What is "youngster"

Usage examples of "youngster".

He was a playful youngster who often let his adventuresome nature get the better of him, and from time to time his sense of fun took him beyond the limits of good judgment.

As Baken stood back from his handiwork, Vetch strode across the sand with confidence and calm, both of which were going to be very important to keep the youngster from feeling uneasy as he approached.

Only the youngsters -- Birken, Greflinger, and, hesitantly, the student Scheffler -- stayed in the courtyard with Zesen and approached the maids.

Bill Bly was the hero of the rodeo world and Deke Murphy was an unknown, a hard-faced youngster who had dropped off a freight train and rustled a job handling stock for the rodeo.

Calvin cultivates a few people like Boody because they can always round up some reckless youngsters for fun and games.

He had dispersed his more useless midshipmen and all his youngsters but for two, Calamy and Williamson, for whom he felt a particular responsibility.

Once he was certain that she had heard him, he allowed himself to cast a glance at the eight youngsters, the newest additions to Crom Hold.

There must, therefore, be a spontaneous bursting, or dehiscence, independent of the assistance of the youngsters and similar to that of the seed-pods of plants.

I nodded a good-by to the boyfighter, thinking how much pleasanter it was for my friend the Captain to address him with unanswerable arguments and crushing statements in his own tent than it would be to meet him upon some remote picket station and offer his fair proportions to the quick eye of a youngster who would draw a bead on him before he had time to say dunder and blixum.

But curiosity is a powerful force, and Telli was not the first youngster from the banks of the Elne to dream of a more interesting and exciting life that might be found elsewhere.

Earl, watching Hickling lead out a rather rawboned youngster, and following him into the yard.

The hyraces bolted in every direction and a youngster ran squealing in blind panic into the middle of the shallow pond.

Old Man Kawai, composed now and curtly efficient, had sent several youngsters for wet sacks and ordered the rest of the villagers to stand by the rolls of camouflage netting.

Had he been the victim, he would have tracked the rabble down and killed them, but not so this forgiving youngster.

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