1. The stripling helped the old man across the road.

2. Though no stripling, he would hunger to get to Siam, Sinkiang or Tartary.

3. He is a young man, hardly more than a stripling.

4. Full of fire as he was in his public life, he could also unbend graciously so as to talk on the most difficult subjects to a stripling like myself without any trace of a patronising tone.

5. And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.

6. When he had spoken, John Alden , the fair - haired, taciturn stripling.

7. And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.