“Because I have noticed that when a young man comes on leave from Petersburg to Moscow it is usually with the object of marrying an heiress.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

'Well, sir,' says he, 'I wish I had meant the lamb as you mean the money!'
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“Yes; a young man who loved her.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I know I’m not perfect: thats one of the advantages of being a middle-aged man; for I’m not a young man, and I know it.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

This shocked me a trifle, as you may suppose; but I was comforted to hear that he had frightfully fractured his skull and broken a leg; for, assured of the falsehood of this, I trusted the rest of the story was equally exaggerated; and when I heard my mother and sister so feelingly deploring his condition, I had considerable difficulty in preventing myself from telling them the real extent of the injuries, as far as I knew them.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin, Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth, Do with your injuries as seems you best In any chastisement.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Voldyrev coughed and went towards the window; there, at a green table spotted like typhus, was sitting a young man with his hair standing up in four tufts on his head, with a long pimply nose, and a long faded uniform.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It also yields more information about the funeral usages of those early days than any of the rest.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

If he had regarded her before, with such a passion as young men attracted by mere beauty and elegance may entertain, he was now conscious of much deeper and stronger feelings.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Here I saw the inauguration of a Governor, Mr. Latham, a young man from Massachusetts, much my junior; and met a member of the State Senate, a man who, as a carpenter, repaired my father's house at home some ten years before; and two more Senators from southern California, relics of another age,—Don
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Therefore I remain in assured hope that myself and my cause shall receive that favor, conceit, and rightful construction at your majesty's hands which I may justly challenge.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

Perhaps they may take him again, perhaps he is in safety; but if your peaceful youth falls into their hands——” Here very fortunately the portress was called away; you may imagine the feelings of Agnes and her daughter!
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

I knew it was their farewell signal; and you, mothers, can imagine my anguish.
— from Stories Worth Rereading by Various

‘A young man, prince?’ ‘A young man dressed as a girl.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

Are you much fatigued?"
— from Jessamine: A Novel by Marion Harland

Two hundred and fifty boys and young men, with their attending masters and ushers, could not but fill a large space, and, of course, would form no unimportant feature in the audience.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

Having arrived at the piazza of the town, the carriage road goes no further, and you must needs walk, while your luggage is conveyed up by strapping female porters, whom on their arrival you reward with soldi and refresh with wine.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

It is said that a young man ran away from his widowed mother and was gone for years.
— from God's Plan with Men by T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin

"Here are the bugs!" cried Flossie, a little later, and she stopped in front of a station toy store, in the window of which a young man was showing how big tin bugs would move along on a spring roller that was fastened beneath them.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Laura Lee Hope