“My daughter is very young—she is scarce of an age to marry.”
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

In expectation of hearing you again, every day I visited your Cathedral: You remained secluded within the Abbey walls, and I always withdrew, wretched and disappointed.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

392 Partendone de q l ala meza partita de ponente et garbin deſſemo in vna yſola non molto grande et caſi
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Sir , I PRESUME you rather try what you can doe in me, then what I can doe in verse; you know my uttermost when it was best, and even then I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

E. W. Horning, `A Bride from the Bush,' p. 298: "`Down in Vic' you can carry as many sheep to the acre as acres to the sheep up here in the `backblocks.'"
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Not only does it vary yearly, but monthly, daily, hourly, yea, every minute and second.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

That comes of settling down in Vienna, you see.
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

It will take a life-time to testify how deeply I value your affection.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Idleness is the parent of crime, and I fear that if you remain another day in Vienna, you will bring disgrace upon your father's name.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

it was now soft, and where it had been elastic it was now boggy; it was more gloomy, and the forest was filled with watery voices; where it dipped down into valleys, you could hear the rushing and mourning of waters.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

'When did I visit your people?
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

“My daughter is very young and very inexperienced,” he said.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant