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Meanings of young sprig in English

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Usage of young sprig in English
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The jury were beginning to hate this neatly dressed young sprig.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
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My fellow-passengers were a young sprig of the Spanish nobility and three chubby-faced nuns.
The Lands of the Saracen / Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Si...
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Just see that this young sprig keeps out of mischief.
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
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What is it you need, young sprig of kindling?
Enchanted Glass
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These editors, by the way, are often very troublesome to the young sprig of genius.
The Diving Bell; Or, Pearls to be Sought for
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Tell her he's no young sprig but he likes a good time all the better.
Linda Condon
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The devil take that young sprig of the nobility!
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Set them on to us, you blasted young sprig!
Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales
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One young sprig was girded in a white loincloth that bore the words "Hotel Taft."
The new yorker
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Here was a beardless young sprig, who patronised him and asked him whether he found London was changed.
Boys and Girls from Thackeray
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One young sprig of a girl, about fourteen, with sallow complexion and bead-like black eyes, kept regarding him.
A Man and His Money
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I'd undertake, while he is caterwauling away with the young gal, to knock that young sprig of an officer overboard.
Hurricane Hurry
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But how in the world are we to get rid of this confounded young sprig of nobility, her self-constituted champion?
Captain Fracasse
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Here was a beardless young sprig, who patronised him, and vouchsafed to ask him whether he found London was changed.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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Thereupon a young sprig, from the East, blustered like a Shanghai rooster, and began to sass the conductor with his chin music.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
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That's a pair of gallant young sprigs, but the choice is your Frenchman, Radisson.
The Trail of the Sword, Volume 1
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