I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and
youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm-trees.
The silent ranks were suddenly thrilled by the eager voice of the
youthful lieutenant bawling out: "Here they come!
'Because,' said the milkman, going on as if he had received no answer, and speaking, as I judged from his tone, rather for the edification of somebody within the house, than of the
youthful servant - an impression which was strengthened by his manner of glaring down the passage - 'because that there little bill has been running so long, that I begin to believe it's run away altogether, and never won't be heerd of.
The unwonted cry had brought the sisters, together with the wounded David, from their place of refuge; and the whole party, at a single glance, was made acquainted with the nature of the disaster that had disturbed even the practiced stoicism of their
youthful Indian protector.
He was inwardly and deeply admiring the most
youthful of the females, for the natural and simple display of those very qualities that he forgot himself to exercise, when he was roused with a feeling of something like mortification, by hearing Charlotte exclaim, with a slight glow on her cheek--
The resemblance was not lessened by the accidental circumstance, that the mature Jerry bit and spat out straw, while the twinkling eyes of the
youthful Jerry were as restlessly watchful of him as of everything else in Fleet-street.
Neither, however, knew of the other's passion, though each hoped as an innocent and
youthful love will hope, and each trembled as each hoped.
Martin found himself shaking hands with a cranky-eyed, bald-headed man, whose face looked
youthful enough from what little could be seen of it, for most of it was covered by a snow-white beard, carefully trimmed - by his wife, who did it on Sundays, at which times she also shaved the back of his neck.
She smiled squarely into the face of a boy who was hurrying by with his hands buried in his overcoat, his blonde locks bobbing on his
youthful temples, and a cheery smile of unconcern upon his lips.
He is eager that Socrates should come to visit him, fond of the poetry of the last generation, happy in the consciousness of a well-spent life, glad at having escaped from the tyranny of
youthful lusts.
When attention was first drawn to the Glandier case, our
youthful reporter was on the spot and installed in the chateau, when every other representative of the press had been denied admission.
He had been an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house and garden; embraced a
youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three blithe, ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church, planted in a grove.