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adolescence

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adolescence

In the human life cycle, the period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood.
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I was in the flower of my adolescence, a-thrill with romance and adventure, dreaming of wild life in the wild man- world.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
It would have caused an acute agony to thrill from the morning twilight, all the day through, until bedtime; and even then would have mingled a dull, inscrutable pain and pallid hue of misfortune with the visionary bloom and adolescence of his slumber.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
After a wild youth, he had retired into a convent, there to expiate, at least for some time, the follies of adolescence.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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