"Youngster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that youngster after all," observed Bruff, who resolved to try what he was really worth, and to ...
— Paul Gerrard - The Cabin Boy • W.H.G. Kingston
... it possible that she had lived there? In the filthy doorway sat a child eating a dill pickle—a scrawny, ragged little girl with much of her hair eaten out by the mange. She recalled this little girl as the formerly pretty and lively youngster, the daughter of the janitress. She went past the child without disturbing her, knocked at the janitress' door. It presently opened, disclosing in a small and foul room four prematurely old women, all in the family way, two with babies in arms. One of these was the janitress. ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... called to the officer. "Let me speak to the youngster. He's a friend, I suppose, of the ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... as he spoke, and answered, "Pasques dieu! the proverb never fails—fier comme un Ecossois [proud or haughty as a Scotchman]—but come, youngster, you are of a country I have a regard for, having traded in Scotland in my time—an honest poor set of folks they are; and, if you will come with us to the village, I will bestow on you a cup of burnt sack and a warm breakfast, to atone for your drenching.—But tete bleau! what do ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott
... no idea of dying. He was too tough a youngster to be shocked to death by a bullet passing through the soft flesh of his foreleg. That was what had happened. His leg was torn to the bone, but the bone itself was untouched. He waited until the moon had risen before he ...
— Baree, Son of Kazan • James Oliver Curwood
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