‘Be a man; you are nearly one by years, God help you.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Now be douce, my bairn, and mind you are not in the woods at home, and don’t let the laddies play their tricks with Miss Primrose.’
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

And she her happiness can build On woman's quiet hours; Though faint, compared with spear and shield, The solace beads and masses yield, And needlework and flowers.
— from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes by Wilson Armistead

[101] fine company, and ye 'ill, maybe, be a man yet, and Nestie and me will be glad to see ye when ye're no engaged with yir study.
— from Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren

You will soon be a man; you are no longer a boy.
— from John Ermine of the Yellowstone by Frederic Remington

She has been alone many years, and no one can persuade her to leave the old house, where she seems to be contented, and does not realize her troubles; though she lives mostly in the past, and has little idea of the present, except in her house affairs, which seem pitiful to me, for I remember the housekeeping of the Chaunceys when I was a child.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

I’ve lived tu long—tu long by all my years, an’ nobody cares wan salt tear that I be roastin’ in hell-fire afore my time.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

What would they say?” “Barney,” asked Margaret, “you are not afraid of them?
— from The Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor