What came over him just at the flower of his youth?

He had been stricken down so in a moment, in the flower and strength of his youth!

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

So many young men, too, this sorrowful voice from the past reminds us, torn away in the flower of their youth.

He died "in the flower of his youth" in 1254.

These young men who fly daily at supersonic speeds are the flower of our youth.

He was no longer a young V'ornn in the full flower of his youth.

"But the flower of her youth will be gone in depression."

- the Brits lost the flower of their youth twice in two world wars.

The British dead were mourned as the flower of the nation's youth.