Literary Examples
Thomas Hardy, in Far from the Madding Crowd describes his hero as being at 'the time of life at which "young" is ceasing to be the prefix of "man"...In short, he was twenty-eight.' Joseph Conrad wrote of 'a shadow-line warning one that the region of early youth, too, must be left behind', with all that remains only 'a fading memory of light-hearted youth, something on the other side of a shadow.'
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