He had known many young women in his life who were not novices at love-making, but who ardently desired to be thought so.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The treacherous luck of all novices at any game is well known.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Women like not novices; and why.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson