"Youngish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A youngish, handsome man he was, with graying temples and keenly observant eyes. The instant he saw ...
— The Man from Time • Frank Belknap Long
... from White House, with a tidy farm-house, stacks, and cabins adjoining. The road crossed the mill-race by a log bridge, and a spreading pond or dam lay to the left,—the water black as ink, the shore sandy, and the stream disappearing in a grove of straight pines. A youngish woman, with several small children, occupied the dwelling, and there remained, besides, her fat sister-in-law and four or five faithful negroes. I begged the favor of a meal and bed in the place one night, ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
... wrote, among other words, "has been let to an Englishman—a youngish, presentable-looking creature, in a dinner jacket, with a tongue in his head, and an indulgent eye for Nature—named Peter Marchdale. Do you happen by any chance to know who he is, or anything ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland
... pseudonym—was sparely built and under medium height, or maybe a slight droop of the shoulders made it seem so, with a fragile look about him and an aspect of youth that was not his. Encountering him casually on a street corner, you would, at the first glance, have taken him for a youngish man, but the second glance left you doubtful. It was a figure that struck a note of singularity and would have attracted your attention even ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... man driving, a youngish man, of sharp, but not unkindly eyes, "thar's a sniptious gal. Come out ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
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