They were brought in by Flopson and Millers, much as though those two non-commissioned officers had been recruiting somewhere for children and had enlisted these, while Mrs. Pocket looked at the young Nobles that ought to have been as if she rather thought she had had the pleasure of inspecting them before, but didn't quite know what to make of them.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

60 15 Visit this Vine, which thy right hand Hath set, and planted long, And the young branch, that for thy self
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Another numberless Branch of Peaceable Lawyers, are those young Men who being placed at the Inns of Court in order to study the Laws of their Country, frequent the Play-House more than Westminster-Hall , and are seen in all publick Assemblies, except in a Court of Justice.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But while he gazed The beauty of her flesh abashed the boy, As though it were the beauty of her soul: For as the base man, judging of the good, Puts his own baseness in him by default Of will and nature, so did Pelleas lend All the young beauty of his own soul to hers, Believing her; and when she spake to him, Stammered, and could not make her a reply.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

When the bridge had been broken down, the attack of the enemy was stopped; and Cocles then threw himself into the river with his armour on and deliberately sacrificed his life, because he valued the safety of his country and his own future reputation more highly than his present life, and the years of existence that remained to him.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The body of the lion is made of pressed leather, and the yellow claws have been supplied with a paint-brush.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Quod Pandarus, `Loke alwey that ye finde Game in myn hood, but herkneth, if yow leste; 1110 Ther is right now come in-to toune a geste, A Greek espye, and telleth newe thinges, For which I come to telle yow tydinges.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

καὶ ὁ Κράτης μέντοι πεποίηκεν ὕμνον εἰς τὴν Εὐτέλειαν· (Do you not know how people lure away the young from philosophy by continually uttering now one slander and then another against all the philosophers in turn?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It is as fine a picture as any Miss Reed’s drawing-master could paint, let alone the young ladies themselves, who could not come near it: and have you learnt French?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I paid little attention to your words then, but I am hungry to hear them repeated now.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

Why, first you sit at the door playing lackey, and then you drop the mask and step forth as the Lord Himself!
— from Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts by August Strindberg

It may, however, though the point is uncertain, prevail, or have prevailed, "among all the tribes between Port Lincoln and the Yerkla-mining at Eucla," that is, wherever the Dieri and Urabunna phratry names, Matteri and Kararu , exist.
— from The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang

When you wrote of that terrible time the dear little one had with the colic, and how you were dependent on a Mexican girl who fed the innocent lamb some horrid hot stuff, Uncle declared it was a shame to imperil such a precious life, and that you must have a thoroughly competent nurse.”
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Sir Walter Herbert, however, did not lose sight of the great object, though he suffered himself to be deluged by much irrelevant matter; and he soon found that the only legitimate cause for supposing Langford at all connected with the death or disappearance of Lord Harold was the fact of the half-witted man, John Graves, having run down, during the preceding evening, and besought several persons to come up and prevent Langford and the young nobleman from killing each other.
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

As soon as Dave had learned to read a little Mr. Duncan took him one day to the public library, and the young man groped in amazement up and down the great rows of books.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead

Paris has a sovereign tremor, the quid divinum is evolved; there is an August 10 or a July 29 in the air, a prodigious light appears, the yawning throat of force recoils, and the army, that lion, sees before it, standing erect and tranquil, that prophet, France.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

Recruiting at Zanesville, I had made the acquaintance of the best men, but paid little attention to young ladies, though, from my office window on Main Street, I had observed a quartet known as the "Cassel girls."
— from My Story by Anson Mills

Jack Price looked at the young man admiringly.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume II by Frances Eleanor Trollope

Again the page looked at the young farmer, who returned a broad stare with the greatest apparent unconcern, and observed, in a broad Devonian dialect, that “Dartmoor was a cranky place to hide in.”
— from The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake