Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors foryouth and health like hers.
Feel awfully aboutScott... It was a terrible thing for him to loveyouth so much that he jumped straight fromyouth tosenility without going throughmanhood. The minute he feltyouth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing betweenyouth and age.
(uncountable) The part of life followingchildhood; the period of existence precedingmaturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, frominfancy, toadulthood.
Make the most of youryouth, it will not last forever.
I made many mistakes in myyouth, but learned from them all.
I don't find the pose ofcarelessyouth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose ofcareworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowingyouth with great sangfroid.
[…]and then ayouth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
(uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively.
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The actual brides- and grooms-to-be are not in attendance—manyyouth would be embarrassed by their parents’ matchmaking efforts, and often do not live in the same city anyway.
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