But as for Arwen the Fair, Lady of Imladris and of Lórien, Evenstar of her people, she is of lineage greater than yours, and she has lived in the world already so long that to her you are but as a yearling shoot beside a young birch of many summers.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
At the Stoners' they found two yearling pigs in the back pen, healthy and full of beans.
King, Stephen
The Stand
"The boy cannot use his legs to command the animal, so you must shape the horse to the rider, teach it to respond to the reins, to the voice. I would begin with an unbroken yearling, with no old training to be unlearned."
George R. R. Martin
A Game Of Thrones
The yearling was a cool customer.
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation 1 - Foundation
A young buck, probably a yearling by his size.
Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games 1 - The Hunger Games
The meat was the backbone of a yearling calf, boiled with corn.
Oliver La Farge
Laughing Boy
Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster Gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
She remembered how the yearling buck had swerved and run right at her, and how she'd decapitated it with the Oriza.
Stephen King
Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower
But chief the reverend sage admired; he took The hand of young Telemachus, and spoke: "Oh, happy youth! and favoured of the skies, Distinguished care of guardian deities! Whose early years for future worth engage, No vulgar manhood, no ignoble age. For lo! none other of the course above, Then she, the daughter of almighty Jove, Pallas herself, the war-triumphant maid; Confess'd is thine, as once thy fathers aid. So guide me, goddess! so propitious shine On me, my consort, and my royal line! A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke, With ample forehead, and yet tender horns, Whose budding honours ductile gold adorns."
Homer
The Odyssey