YOUNG in Classic Quotes

1  A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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2  But it secretes friendly girls, young men who sing, and one lady instructress who really likes Milton and Carlyle.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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3  She was melancholy at sight of the mousey girls with whom she had "always intended to get acquainted," and the half dozen young men who were ready to fall in love with her.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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4  Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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5  A classmate named Stewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, "These college chumps make me tired."

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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6  Yet so radioactive were her nerves, so adventurous her trust in rather vaguely conceived sweetness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly galloped across the floor of the "gym" in practise for the Blodgett Ladies' Basket-Ball Team.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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