When the lot fell upon me to be the first to cross the Tweed at Hirselhaugh into England, are ye not the stripling that was the first to follow me?
A ragged stripling pulled out of his pocket a stone and hurled it with all his strength into the open window.
On the way he flung away his cap and snatched a hat from the head of a stripling who, understanding the situation in the twinkle of an eye, did not even quiver.
At Cambridge and eke at Oxford, every stripling is accounted a Man from the moment of his putting on the gown and cap.
For weeks the goblin weird and wild, That noble stripling haunted; For weeks the stripling stood and smiled, Unmoved and all undaunted.
For hours he tried to daunt the youth, For days, indeed, but vainly-- The stripling smiled!
She would not comprehend that the stripling who had until that day shrunk before her frown could thus suddenly have acquired the necessary courage to brave her authority; and once more M.
You know, sir, upon what a design I am going, and what a stripling I am for so great a work; but I stand forth as David against Goliath in the name of the Lord of hosts.
Those stripling pilots of the air that flew undaunted over shell-fire in all weathers and at all times have opened up a chapter in our history that nothing can rival.
He was a queer old character was Père Dreyfus; he had lived in the little town now thirty years, since he came there first as a stripling curate.
Suppose that bearded sire, Whom hemlock from a guilty world removed, Thus to address the stripling that he loved.
But assuredly you have reached England at a good time for a striplingwho is afraid of his sword rusting in the scabbard; for seldom has England had greater need of stout hearts and strong hands than now.
I thought of these things day by day, and when I grew to a stripling I came to ask why this should be so.
And I was a stripling again, for the look was the look of Unga as she ran up the beach, laughing, to the home of her mother.
When the striplingenters upon the theatre of the world, bright hopes are around him, and he moves onward in the buoyancy of conscious power.
A stripling was already holding two horses at the door, but another came out and took care of our animals, and we entered, exchanging courteous salutations, the tonsorial penetralia.
Notwithstanding, the old woman continued fixed in the same attitude of expectation, and the striplingstill held the well-nigh drained throat of his lamb above the trench.
I know how it is done, and can do it if necessary, and could have done it when I was a stripling of seventeen years of age.
My experience teaches me that the statement of David is true, and I can understand how, without any use of miraculous power, the stripling could and did slay the lion.
The good man was most interested in Edward, only he exhorted Mr. Talbot to be careful with whom he bestowed the stripling at Cambridge, so that he might shed the pure light of the Gospel, undimmed by Popish obscurities and idolatries.
I would have the youths both for my gentlemen pensioners--the elder when he can be spared from his charge, this stripling at once.
And, for that thestripling is younger, it might come about that he subdue the Pehliva.
A child will weep a bramble's smart, A maid to see her sparrow part, A stripling for a woman's heart: But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
To such inheritance of blessed fancy 5 (Fancy that sports more desperately with minds Than ever fortune hath been known to do) The high-born Vaudracour was brought, by years Whose progress had a little overstepped His stripling prime.
But perceiving only this fresh-faced stripling in his skin garment, he was filled with contempt at such an antagonist.
And some one came to Saul, relating the words the stripling had spoken.
This Jesse had a fourth son, David, who was but a striplingand tended his father's sheep.
They were sitting austerely upright with grave faces as became the occasion, when it came upon them suddenly that the police stripling was intoxicated.
I have been talking to a stripling from Nova Scotia, who has been here these four months.
The stripling was deeply vexed by this observation; it seemed to touch him to the very quick.
As they lived alone, and away from other Indians, the curiosity of the stripling was excited to know what was passing in the world.
To be brought into comparison with this unknown stripling was bitter enough, but to be used as a foil to set off his superiority was too much to be borne.
A few years of intellectual elevation and development had made a prodigious change in the poor fugitive stripling from the convent.
