Now he is no more, there are days when the reality of his existence comes to me with an immense, with an overwhelming force; and yet upon my honour there are moments, too when he passes from my eyes like a disembodied spirit astray amongst the passions of this earth, ready to surrender himself faithfully to the claim of his own world of shades.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Do you understand—you could not receive a large allowance from a young unmarried man.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It is entirely too familiar treatment for a young unmarried man to submit to at such short notice and unchaperoned.
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre

" Feeling of the Breasts, fainting, and dying away , may, in your Opinion, Sir, be Excitements to Virtue , but they are too Virtuous a Description in my Mind for any young untainted Mind to peruse.
— from Pamela Censured by Anonymous

The King kindly added that he should bestow a thousand francs a year upon Mahony, and a brevet of Colonel.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

“Ah, well, you’ll soon pick them up if you are interested, and not quite such a fool as your uncle made out.
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

The school was in a cellar, with forms round, on which there was always a birch-rod handy, and as the schoolmaster had been a soldier he knew how to use it, and my friend added: “You understand me—there were no inspectors in those days.”
— from Collecting as a Pastime by Charles Rowed

But the mere statement that the board is operated by a force as yet unknown merely restates the problem, without in any way attempting to solve it, and hence leaves us precisely where we were.
— from The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

“No, Monsieur Coco, you will not [309] be allowed down here in the court where your pretty white feathers and your unblemished morals might be tarnished by the dreadful people all about.
— from The Arm-Chair at the Inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

[42] everybody will visit the Fair; and yesterday, upon Midway, whom should I see but M. Voisin!
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch