I claim that congeniality with you which I have found not among my own coevals.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The one was the love of a man of six-and-twenty, exceptionally seasoned and experienced and responsible for his years, for a girl still at school, a girl attractively beautiful, mysterious and unknown to him; the other was the love of coevals, who had been playmates and intimate companions, and of whom the woman was certainly as capable and wilful as the man.
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
He imagined the face grown all at once haggard and tired and afraid-afraid with a great fear of what must happen in a few years at the latest, when, with middle-age heavy upon his shoulders, he should see his coevals prospering and himself bankrupt of his stock-in-trade of good looks, and without one penny to rub against another.
"The Truants"
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason