years of discretion

You cannot even make the excuse that I have not yet arrived at years of discretion.

Still quite young, but you have reached years of discretion, have you not?

Do "years of discretion" love poems exist?

It's a very young man's assertion, is that, and ridiculously overstated, but then he never did reach years of discretion...

"If anyone says that communion of the Eucharist is necessary for little children before they have attained the years of discretion,let him be anathema."

Since I have arrived at years of discretion and become my own master, I have been constantly seeking him, but all in vain.

Mrs. Presty picked it up from the floor, determined by this time to hold it in reserve until her ungrateful grandchild reached years of discretion.

Father had been a champion cyclist in his youth in Wales and saw that we were all given good bicycles when we reached years of discretion.

He appeared as Metz in Years of Discretion at the Belasco Theatre in 1912.

I start from the belief that alcohol can be good for you in regular and limited quantities, particularly at the years of discretion which you and I have reached.

It would be in keeping with Mr Premium to lament that a young man must now be at the years of discretion before he is allowed to ruin himself.

When at last I woke up again I was ready to face the world as I have always been accustomed to face it since I came to years of discretion.

He never said anything about it, he scarcely even gave a hint of his hopeless condition, though of course Beatrice divined something of it as soon as she came to years of discretion.

Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years of discretion, for in this fast age babies of three or four assert their rights, and get them, too, which is more than many of their elders do.

Every man being born free, says another distinguished writer, the son of a citizen, arrived at the years of discretion, may examine whether it be convenient for him to join in the society for which he was destined by birth.

In the preface to his own translation, Pope praises "the daring fiery spirit" of Chapman's rendering, which is "something like what one might imagine Homer, himself, would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion".

Now I, who have reached years of discretion, Must weigh that which I have in my possession Against your advancing beauty A gammy eye for a myopic one An impostor tooth for a crown?

Canon 21, the famous "Omnis utriusque sexus", which commands every Christian who has reached the years of discretion to confess all his, or her, sins at least once a year to his, or her, own (i.e. parish) priest.

And forasmuch as the lad had never beheld things like these during his born days, nor had reached those years of discretion which would teach him the worth of such valuables (he being still but a little lad), he fancied that all these jewels were of glass or crystal.

Uncle Oscar, uncharacteristically silent, snorted, , "I sup pose you'll be back at all hours..." "You overlook the fact that I've reached the years of discretion and Deborah has to get up in the morning," said Sir James equably, a remark which served to cast a shadow over Deborah's evening.

The freedom of a man at years of discretion, and the subjection of a child to his parents, whilst yet short of it, are so consistent and so distinguishable that the most blinded contenders for monarchy, "by right of fatherhood," cannot miss of it; the most obstinate cannot but allow of it.

If any orphan arrives at years of discretion, and thinks that he has been ill-used by his guardians, let him within five years of the expiration of the guardianship be allowed to bring them to trial; and if any of them be convicted, the court shall determine what he shall pay or suffer.

Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly, they would have us wait for our 'years of discretion'; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know, all I know is that I have not arrived there yet, and I hope I never will.

When she arrived at Walsall, she informed Edward that Mrs Noble, after sending her earlier a 'vulgar and jeering' letter in which 'She does her best to make me doubt you', had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion - her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898.