I forgot, I think, that I was getting older, that I had left youth behind.

It is but the half-way post; one has left youth behind, but one has not reached old age.

It was as though he left youth and all delightfulness behind him, in the deepening dusk of the woods.

The man he had known was dead and this one, his successor, must by this time have left youth behind him.

For many and many a man, though escaping with his life, had left youth and health and hope on these difficult shores.

In Paris the beautiful, on a bright and brisk day it is all but impossible to despair when one still has left youth and health.