I know of a young man who for a time was actually haunted by the really charming melody of the song of Paris, from The Beautiful Helen , until the analysis brought to his attention the fact that at that time his interest was divided between an Ida and a Helen.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But I met the devil an' Dundee, On the Braes o' Killiecrankie, O. An ye had been, &c. The bauld Pitcur fell in a furr, An' Clavers gat a clankie, O; Or I had fed an Athole gled, On the Braes o' Killiecrankie, O. An ye had been, &c. H2 anchor Awa' Whigs, Awa' Chorus.—Awa' Whigs, awa'!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

XXIX Sound sleep, books, walking, were his bliss, The murmuring brook, the woodland shade, The uncontaminated kiss Of a young dark-eyed country maid, A fiery, yet well-broken horse, A dinner, whimsical each course, A bottle of a vintage white And solitude and calm delight.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The voice said again, “Keep on, and you will come out at the spot where you were captured.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"My accountability, bear in mind," Said the Grand Vizier: "Yes, yes," Said the Shah: "I do—'tis the only kind Of ability you possess.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

She began to push right through it with her 'Sir, how dare you?' manner—Honestly, sometimes when I look at her and see how she's always so made up and stinking of perfume and looking for trouble and kind of always yelping, 'I tell yuh
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Let me know of anything you may have said.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Well, I suppose that doesn’t interest you, but leastways there was such noise after the match that I missed the train home and I couldn’t get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift for, as luck would have it, there was a mass meeting that same day over in Castletownroche and all the cars in the country were there.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

We know of a young man who has a great deal of natural ability for public speaking, and yet he is so timid that he always shrinks from accepting invitations to speak at banquets or in public because he is so afraid that he has not had experience enough.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

They tried to tear my eyes out, and when I killed them I cleared their nest of the bones that lay there after I had twisted the necks of the young; then I kept on, and you shall see what I found.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

"We knew what kind of appetites you would bring along with you, so we decided on safety first."
— from Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance; Or, The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by Janet D. Wheeler

And I have [Pg 236] talked with men of old family, and they have told me of cases they know of.' "'And you think,' I said, 'that it is a real danger, to marry beneath you?' "'Yes,' he said, finishing his soup. '
— from Aliens by William McFee

I never knew of a yoke over fourteen years old, but I once heard of one that lived to be twenty-four.
— from Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

but she would do as she had said, turned towards her; and, looking full upon her, with a countenance composed enough, but which had yet in it somewhat between the ironical and severe, replied in these terms: 'Since you are so much bent,' said she, 'on making a visit to Mr. Staple, far be it from me, Miss Flora, to deprive that gentleman of the favour you [Pg 182] intend him, provided you give me your promise, in the presence of Mr. Goodman, (and he will be your security for the performance of it) that you will mention neither my name, nor that of Mr. Trueworth; and, above all, that you will not pretend to have any knowledge of affairs you never have been trusted with.'
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

But you wait a bit till de Aasvo’el’s King of all you birds, den you’ll ha’ to sing small enough, Mr Tink Tinky.’
— from Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan

"I am this kind of a young man.
— from Ailsa Paige: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Young man, you have already done wonders, and if you keep on as you have begun there is no telling what you may not accomplish before you pass along this track again on your way to the coast.
— from Oscar in Africa by Harry Castlemon