Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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which, being interpreted, means, "Harvard University, alas! too near the Mabille Garden." To be sure, it is not yet within easy walking distance. To the ardent and inquiring youth one cannot yet answer, "Second turning on the left, follow the crowd and there you are"; but still it is too near to make both ends meet comfortably on an allowance of $2,000 a year...
...took a Fine Arts course last winter, and ever since has been impressing upon his kind old father and simple-minded mother the necessity of his satisfying his mind in regard to the existence of the flying buttress in the best examples of Romanesque architecture. But alas! this estimable youth, instead of being in some quiet town, architecturally rich in the relics of the past, has been improving his idiomatic knowledge of the French language by sojourning in the tents of Kedar, or, to be less biblical, in the Rue de Breda, and any buttresses whose acquaintance he has made...
...Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself and his revered grandparents. Ever since then the money has burnt in his pocket, and has nearly eaten its way through two pairs of Poole's best trousers. The ingenious youth's intention is to increase his pile, if possible, at the expense of the hereditary Prince of Monaco. Is the dear boy inclined to be extravagant? Oh, dear, no! it is merely that he may select appropriate trifles for his maiden aunts and his five younger sisters...
Where blooms bold Youth, where blasts the breath of Care...
...maiden answered, "O goddess-born, having the radiant freshness of youth, I deem not myself worthy of the honor, and my sister's name is not Phoebe but Bridget, and mine 's Mary Ann, and shove us the salt...