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OE Beowulf (2008) 1843 Ne hyrde ic snotorlicor on swa geongum feore guman þingian.

OE Rule St. Benet (Tiber.) (1888) lix. 99 Si ipse puer minori aetate est : gif he þæt sylfe cild on iunre ylde is.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 53 Children in ȝonge age.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 103 Whan his ȝong dayes were go, he went to Rome.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxix At these yong yeres of age.

c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiv. 27 Than vp thow rasit to reule my Ring, In to my tender yeiris ȝing.

c1610–15 Life St. Cuthburge in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 77 Cuthburge..from her yong yeares soughte to please Christ.

1657 I. B. Heroick Educ. App. iv. sig. I7 Cyrus in his young age being bred up amongst country peasants, did not know his own extraction.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 102 She had fallen into very ill Company in London in her young Days.

1799 Monthly Mag. May 336/1 He had emerged from the overwhelming obscurity which clouded his young years.

1823 C. Lamb South-sea House in Elia 6 He wore his hair..in the fashion which I remember to have seen in caricatures of what were termed, in my young days, Maccaronies.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 194 The delusion which had blighted her young years.

1907 Truth (Sydney) 14 July 1/8 ‘Girls are not like they were in my young days,’ said an elderly ironbark lady seated in an Abbotsford tram.

1949 P. Grainger Let. 23 Nov. in All-round Man (1994) 238 Most people who inherit money, or earn it themselves professionally in their young years, come to a prosperity halt fairly early in life.

1963 S. Olson Young H. Ford xvii. 164/1 At this moment in his young life he has only two distinctions: he is clean shaven..; and he never makes a mistake.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Nov. 41/1 I was taught at a young age that if you're not having fun at something, then it's time to go.