What was it she said: 'I don't care if I never get home?” Leaning over the handle of his cane, he wheezed out, to Mrs. Small's terror: “And I'm not altogether surprised, with a finickin' feller like young Soames for a husband!”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

"You see," said Richard, with something pathetic in his manner of lingering on the point, though it was off-hand and unstudied, "to an upright fellow like you, bringing a friendly face like yours here, I cannot bear the thought of appearing selfish and mean.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

We will go and see the lions for an hour or two—it’s something to have a fresh fellow like you to show them to, Copperfield—and then we’ll journey out to Highgate by the coach.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"As for field labor, your grandmother may, while we were in New Hampshire, have sometimes assisted father for a day or two during the pressure of haying or harvesting time; but never, since I was old enough to observe, can I recollect seeing her work in the fields.
— from The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

With other vessels of light draught the Firefly went up the river, fishing up torpedoes, transporting soldiers, and hammering down rebel batteries, and continued upon this duty until General Terry marched into the deserted city of Wilmington, and raised the national flag where the emblem of treason had insulted the free air for four long years.
— from Brave Old Salt; or, Life on the Quarter Deck: A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic

But one cold morning in the winter of ‘61, the telegraph bore to New York tidings of the secession of Louisiana, then the sons of the sunny South rallied to her standard, and for four long years a bloody war desolated that section.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

A fine fellow like you will have his pick of the best.”
— from The Ship of Coral by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Now, therefore, I come to put to you a couple of questions, which you must answer me, but honestly as a son to a father; for, look you, I am to defend you when the examination is over, so that I should be considered, in jure , as your physician and confessor, to whom you must speak the truth if you wish to be radically healed.
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. I. The Patricians by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde

It is for love of you that I go with you; also for fear lest you should cause me to be beaten if I refused.
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“I could not wish for a better than a fine fellow like you.”
— from The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern) by Jules Verne

What shall we say of this gentlest, sternest, kindest, goodliest, sinfulest of knights,—this man who knew no middle path, but who, when treading in perilous places and following false lights, yet draws all men admiringly to himself?
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers