They were silent as Mr. and Mrs. Linton sauntered by; the lady with tempestuous brows and challenging chin; the gentleman, a blond stripling, trailing after her, head downward, like a reluctant child dragged by his nurse.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
But now he realised that he was to be supplanted, and by a stranger at that, a mere stripling, whom Nance had seen for only one hour.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
So thought a youthful stripling, astride a stout steed, as, emerging from the town-end of Uxbridge, he rode over the old bridge crossing the Colne.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid