over-young

You're over-young to be shut in there with the ailing old.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Friend, she said, if this day weareth, and I am yet within these walls, then meseemeth there must I abide for evermore; and there perchance shall I meet that seeming of myself, maybe for this night, maybe for ever, till I die here in this castle void of all that I love, and I over-young for it, friend.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

'Ye're a trifle over-young to turn parson,' she responded.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

As for me, I am over-young to break my neck and be left on the mountain-side to fatten crows.

The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

He was very rough with the strong, but he was ay considerate of the old and over-young.

The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

"You're over-young to smoke," said the old man, turning round and regarding him.

The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant 1903

You're over-young to hang millstones round your neck, and the Colonel will turf you out of that in double-quick time if you attempt it. '

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

And it is found in another legend that Quirine despised the tyrant as well when he glosed him as when he blamed him, and confessed him to be christian, howbeit that he was over-young to speak but the Holy Ghost spake in him.

The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

She was the on'y woman aboard, as it used t 'be afore the law was made for women; an' a sweet an 'likely maid, they says -- a rosy, dimpled, good-natured lass, hailin' from down Chain Tickle way, but over-young an 'trustful, as it turned out, t' be voyagin 'north t' the fishin 'with the likes o'

Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

"You are over-young to be in the army," she suggested.

A Little Union Scout Joel Chandler Harris 1878