He was a remarkedly well-preserved man and looked much younger than his years.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After this figure he was silent a long while, till he added: "It would just suit me." IV Walking somewhat slowly by reason of his concentration, the boy—an ancient man in some phases of thought, much younger than his years in others—was overtaken by a light-footed pedestrian, whom, notwithstanding the gloom, he could perceive to be wearing an extraordinarily tall hat, a swallow-tailed coat, and a watch-chain that danced madly and threw around scintillations of sky-light as its owner swung along upon a pair of thin legs and noiseless boots.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I shall tell her that she is taking my place; I shall speak my mind openly to her; and, if she chooses to marry you, to help you to punish me, she shall take the consequences."
— from Love Works Wonders: A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame

He knows I’m against him, and mean you to have your rights, and he’s trying with medicine and attendance to—no, stop, that’s not it,” whispered the old man, “I’ve got wrong sorts in my case, and that’s not what I wanted to say.”
— from Mad: A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn

You have been ridiculed, sneered at, maligned; your tools hidden, your goods injured, violence threatened or executed.
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

you have always told me your thoughts, have you not?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Did you ever pray—ever since I married you to her?” “Yes.”
— from A Romany of the Snows, Complete Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

She clapped her hands, for there were moments when Rilla was a very little girl at heart, much younger than her years, and yet at other times, when she was comforting her old grand-dad and soothing away his imaginary fears, she was far older than fifteen.
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North

They seemed to be whispering to her of priceless love and tenderness; for Mr. Lilburn was a hale, hearty man, looking much younger than his years: he might outlive her, but years of genial companionship might well be hoped for in this world, to be eventually followed by a blissful eternity in another and better land, for they were followers of the same Master, travelling the same road—toward the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
— from Elsie at the World's Fair by Martha Finley

He was at this time about five-and-thirty, though careful living and an even, unemotional temperament caused him to look much younger than his years.
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy