mature-seeming

Updated: June 14, 2025

I speak of him as old, and indeed we always called him Old Childe among ourselves; yet he was barely fifty. Nina, when I first made her acquaintance, must have been a girl of sixteen or seventeen; though tall, with an amply-rounded, mature-seeming figure if one had judged from her appearance, one would have fancied her three or four years older.

Henry Harland - Grey Roses

Space in the Meikeljohn household was valuable, the invalid presented many practical difficulties, and, with the solemn concurrence of the elders of their church, Elim something short of seventeen but a grave mature-seeming boy and Hester were married.

Joseph Hergesheimer - The Happy End