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One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.

From Following the Equator — Part 1 by Twain, Mark

Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque "chivalry" doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives.'

From Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne by Ker, William Paton

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them?

From The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark

I heartily wish I had any verses which with a clear mind I could send you in lieu of these juvenilities.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In fact, Diane enjoyed these delightful juvenilities all the more keenly because she knew that she could put an end to them at any moment.

From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Balzac, Honoré de

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