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youthful

/ˈjuθfəl/ adjective B2
  1. Young or seeming young. · a youthful butler
  2. Characteristic of young people. · youthful vivacity
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Faria, as we have said, without having recovered the use of his hand and foot, had regained all the clearness of his understanding, and had gradually, besides the moral instructions we have detailed, taught his youthful companion the patient and sublime duty of a prisoner, who learns to make something from nothing.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 203 · C1
The duke left the royal presence with the speed of a young man; his really sincere royalism made him youthful again.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 95 · C1
A certain melancholy that touched her countenance must have been of recent birth, for it had not yet altered the fine and youthful contours of her cheek, nor subdued the arch though resolute curve of her lips.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 34 · C1
A youthful indiscretion, I suppose, which you were anxious to conceal from the world at large?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 582 · C1

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