Boys still in their tender teens most of them were.
Was this the dead-level, monotonous stretch of the road, from the time of the early teens on to the full maturity of thirty?
Till I reached my 'teens it was my task to spread hay and to rake after; later I took my turn with the mowers and pitchers.
Almost in his teens Shakespeare makes a specialty of the theatre, Napoleon of military science, Beethoven of music, Hunter of medicine, Faraday of chemistry, Hamilton of political science.
Such problems abound in the later teens and twenties, and then is the time to set about their discussion.
Mr. Wilson's connection with the News dates almost from its inception, when as a lad in his teens he entered the business office of the paper in its second year of publication as bookkeeper.
Although but in his 'teens he went to the front during the Civil War, enlisting in the 56th Regiment.
After him came Rameau, who, like Stradivari, fell in love with a widow while he was still in his teens and she well out of hers.
Every one knows how he began to love Clara, and she him, when he was first leaving his teens and she entering her fame as an eleven-year-old prodigy.
She who in her 'teens records her prostrations of worship before his earlier works, ere he became so coldly classical.
I feel too much buoyed up with the promise of doing something this year to feel as wretched as I might have felt at the thought of my precious 'teens dribbling away.
And it ain't for me to speak of what happened back in those times, being barely out of my teens then and away cow-keeping over Alton way for Farmer Whimsett.
For cradle-snatching is not, it must be conceded, a graceful occupation; nor is a middle-aged man with a wife still in her teens a graceful spectacle.
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The two deadliest foes of young life today are admittedly alcoholic drinks and the cigarette, and any crusade against these for the conservation of the boy in his teens should be welcomed.
It is a malady that occurs in the 'teens and declines in the thirties.
Girls in theirteens have strange caprices, and that was mine.
But the soldier had been to the officer with his story, and Grant was told that the boy attacked the militiaman--which, considering that the boy was a child in his early teens and the man was armed and in his twenties, was unlikely.
I tell John there's nothing like the kind of folks a boy is with in his teens to make him.
Morty laughed quietly and added: "When Anne gets out of her 'teens she'll put father in a monastery!
Beyond that lay a level field where two grown youths in their late teens bent over their task of harvesting Brussels sprouts.
It was a tall, strongly built girl in her late teens who spoke.
The period of my teens was the period when my wardrobe was continually in abeyance upon the higher claims of my education.
Almost every girl in her teens at some time falls violently in love with some remote being almost old enough to be her father--a being whom she endows with all the graces and perfections of her dream Adonis.
Yet all my life since my early teens I had been thinking and planning and waiting for it--love.
Although he came to the northwest a boy in his teens without money or any usual advantages of any kind he has through his own efforts gained financial independence and justly ranks as one of the substantial residents of Walla Walla.
His father died when the son was a lad in his teens and the burden of the support of the family fell upon his shoulders.
Mrs. King was then a young girl in her teens and drove the mule team throughout the entire journey across the plains.
While a lad in his teens he was "torch boy," whose duty it was to carry the light by which the firemen found their way to fires and for working about their apparatus, for at that time there were no street lights in Walla Walla.
Therefore if a young man barely out of his teens were to succeed in 'conquering London,' and bending it to his will, he would certainly need all his briskness and readiness of tongue.
Number 1, however, was a mimeographed booklet of my own fiction, published during my late teens for the FAPA, mentioned above.
If it only means that the girl in her teens shall not go to school or to work without breakfast, it pays.
The girl in her teens is interested always in the influence of the passions and emotions upon the physical nature, and knowledge given in a simple direct way is good for her.
Any teacher now reading this chapter may be the one to discover through her own experience just the material for which teachers of the girl in her teens are waiting.
We have seen that early in her teens a girl begins to care "how she looks.
The girl in herteens is developing the individual moral sense, and if the years are to bring strength of character every open avenue to the mind must be used to help in constantly raising standards and impressing truth.
If the girl in her teens is comfortable to live with she will be content in the place where she is.
The aim of every one in any way responsible for the education of the girl in her teens is to help her to see the right and desire it.
One of the greatest problems facing the fashionable church is how to reach in any way girls in their teens who are members of its congregation.
And I knew that to the majority of girls in their teens it means little.
One reason why there is so much misery and unhappiness in home life to-day is because the girl in her teens is not trained to live.
When as whistles blow and factory gates swing wide, one catches a glimpse in the early morning of the girl in her teens going to work, he hears snatches of happy laughter and jesting.
I fell in love with her myself when I was in my teensand first saw her as Cinderella.
In his teens the slave's earnings would gradually increase until they covered all his current charges, including the cost of supervision; and shortly before the age of twenty he would perhaps begin to yield a net return to the owner.
It was in my teens that I devoured Lavengro in its original three-volume form.
I do earnestly hope that this book, founded on a strictly scientific but not forgetting a strong ethical basis, may be well known and widely read by the dear girls in their teens and the young women in their homes.
A girl is scarcely in her teens before custom requires a change in her dress.
He was in his early teens when he waited four hours on a Boston wharf to see Lafayette's boat come in.
Tennyson and Wordsworth in their teens wrote puerile verse, just as Lincoln in his teens wrote a foolish paper.
When still in his teens the youth served with distinction in France and in the Neapolitan war; and, on attaining his majority, he was sent with a detachment of troops to the assistance of the Emperor Charles V.
Thus Ippolito and Alessandro entered upon their teenswith no judicious, kindly, or formative influences around them.
Whether girls married in their teens as a matter of course, a couple of generations ago, I do not know, as I was not there; but the youthful heroine was a sine qua non in Victorian fiction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
