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Example sentences for "when young"

  • The =stem= is nearly cylindrical, or tapering evenly from the base, when young more or less hairy, becoming smooth.

  • The stem is often viscid and smeared with the glutinous substance which envelopes the plant when young, and from the more or less glutinous veil.

  • The =pileus= when young is broadly ovate, then becomes convex or fully expanded and flat in age, and is quite thin.

  • The =pileus= when young is umbilicate, the margin involute, and in age the margin becomes elevated and then the pileus is more or less funnel-shaped.

  • When young he had enjoyed the reputation of being one of the best preachers in Canada.

  • Heathcote, when young, published anonymously a pamphlet in the Middletonian controversy.

  • When young, "he walked mostly alone, was given much to thinking and melancholy.

  • Pope is said to have regarded his judgment; and Mallet, when young, tremblingly submitted a poem, to live or die by his breath.

  • A learned friend recollects, when young, that this critical work was said to be written by Hill.

  • The author knows a lady who, when young, requested her pious father to permit her to learn to dance.

  • When young, the leaves make an excellent small salad; having the warm, pleasant flavor of Cress.

  • The fruit, when young, is very symmetrical, and of a fine deep-green color.

  • The leaves, when young, can be used as spinach, but the seeds are the most sought after for food.

  • Its leaves are oval, and, when young, of a rich yellowish colour, which changes to a bright green.

  • When young, the claws are short and round at the end, while they are long and sharp when old.

  • When young it has rather soft paws, and not much opened, and also soft ears; but if old, the paws are hard and much worn, and the ears stiff and hard.

  • When young, they are not so bad, and may be prepared like a turkey stuffed or stewed.

  • When young, there is no stiffness in the legs.

  • When young it forms rosettes close to the ground, but grows taller and more straggling.

  • When young, mushrooms are like a small round button, both the stalk and head being white.

  • When young, and still fed by their parents, they are most preferable for the table, and are called squabs; under six months they are denominated squeakers, and at six months they begin to breed.

  • When young, it is held in high estimation, being considered as little different from common grouse.

  • When young, trees, like striplings, shoot into taper forms.

  • Hayman was one of the earliest members of the Royal Academy, and was, when young, a scene-painter at Drury Lane Theatre.

  • He was partial to the drama; and, when young, often strutted his hour at an amateur theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

  • Fool's parsley, when young, differs from this plant but very little, being much the same in size, and the laciniae of the leaves of a similar form.

  • Cultivated celery differs from it when young, first in the shape and size of its roots.

  • When young, these animals have more of this secretion than when more advanced: it then hangs from their anal extremity in locks[447].


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good policy; half interest; its existence; mile before; used every; when all; when boiling; when disturbed; when finished; when going; when half; when last; when light; when made; when milk; when necessary; when present; when rightly; when seen; when their; when they came out; when they had gone; when they saw the; when viewed; when writing; whence also