"And it was also, as it happened, my nineteenth birthday..."

"Nineteen, almost twenty, I was a college sophomore home on vacation..."

"He was, perhaps, nineteen, with stooped shoulders, pale blue eyes, and, as Amory could tell from his general appearance, without much conception of social competition..."

"“Anything worth living for,” said Nately, “is worth dying for.”"

"...but then he was nineteen..."

"Anyhow, this was Jacob Flanders, aged nineteen..."

"He was not at all embarrassed. He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself..."

"I was nineteen years old and completely ignorant of women..."

" Even that, come on now, was a pretty arresting thing for a nineteen-year-old boy to have thought."