True, you are more welcome when the business of the day is over, in the afternoon rather than in the morning, and you must, even as a friend, avoid calling at meal times.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

I don’t dislike him as much as you might expect.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

Indeed, Mr Allworthy, you must excuse me, but I am surprized to hear you talk in zuch a manner, and I must say, take it how you will, that I thought you had more sense.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Not as much as you might expect.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

While he thus indulged his own talkative vein, and at the same time, no doubt, expected retaliation from me, a young man entered, dressed in black velvet and an enormous tie-wig, with an air in which natural levity and affected solemnity were so jumbled together, that on the whole he appeared a burlesque on all decorum.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Miré a mi alrededor, y me encontré solo.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

When she was half-way she stopped, and said mournfully: “Marse Tom, I nussed you when you was a little baby, en I raised you all by myself tell you was ’most a young man; en now you is young en rich, en I is po’ en gitt’n ole, en I come heah b’lievin’
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

He would not let it be, but roved about, sniffing and whining, and not daring to thrust his head beneath the falling draperies, but growing more and yet more excited and terrified, until at last he stopped, raised head in air, and gave vent to a longer, louder, and more dolorous howl, and albeit to one with so strange and noticeable a sound that her heart turned over in her breast as she stooped and caught him in her grasp, and shuddered as she stood upright, holding him to her side, her hand over his mouth.
— from A Lady of Quality Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion Through the Pages of The Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down by Frances Hodgson Burnett

24 Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; yet God feedeth them: how much are ye more excellent than the birds? 25 Which of you, with all his anxiety, can add one moment to his life?
— from A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth by Thomas Haweis

The next morning a young man employed by the magistrates of Pittsburgh came for me to go immediately to town to give in my deposition, that it might be published to the American people.
— from Captives Among the Indians by Mary White Rowlandson

The conversation, the gambling, the dancing, the flirtations, interests, petty rivalries, and scheming had all reached the pitch of ardor which makes a young man exclaim involuntarily, “A fine ball!”
— from Domestic Peace by Honoré de Balzac

"Was it true what Soeur Ursule said about me?" "About you, mon enfant? "
— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

Conceive him to be, with all his faults an honourable young man, and you may easily imagine what his ecstacy must have been.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous

If you experiment first, you are sure to be done out of marriage, and you may even be done out of love."
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon