"I trust in the Lord," said he, "that He will prosper your going out and your coming in.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Here comes a pretty young girl of my acquaintance with a large stone pitcher for me to fill.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The more I thought of the fight, and recalled the pale young gentleman on his back in various stages of puffy and incrimsoned countenance, the more certain it appeared that something would be done to me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[an admirer of this pretty young girl of eighteen] to sigh and sentimentalize, and that you did not go with him in his sledge, that he might have upset you.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Take great care of this ring,” she said: “it is more precious than diamonds; every time you do a bad deed it will prick your finger, but if, in spite of its pricking, you go on in your own evil way, you will lose my friendship, and I shall become your enemy.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Keeping him standing close beside him, and enjoying the sight of his youthful charms so deliciously exposed immediately before his eyes, he proceeded— “So, Master Dale, you have, it seems, been gratifying yourself with looking and feeling between the legs and thighs of a pretty young girl of fifteen, your cousin, is she not?” “Yes, sir,” sobbed out the youth.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Amy did it to please you. Go on, and tell the truth, if you can, sir.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Would it might please your Grace, On our entreaties, to amend your fault!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And it was now so bright that the waxing moon seemed but a pale yellow ghost of itself, hanging huge in the sunset.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A fortified hill-top now known as Pen y Gaer, or ‘Hill of the Fortress’, on the western side of the Conway, on a mountain within sight of the railway station of Tal y Cafn, Carnarvonshire, is regarded by Sir John Rhŷs as the site of a long-forgotten cult of Math the Ancient.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

“Then you preserve your good opinion of him, Ada, despite all unfavourable appearances?”
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

I command thee curse him, Curse till the gods hear, and deliver him To thy just wishes: yet I fear Evadne ; You had rather play your game out.
— from The Maids Tragedy by John Fletcher

Now, we have a school here, where he can learn the most elegant Latin, and get an insight into the Greek letters, which is desirable; and where, moreover, he will have an opportunity of making acquaintance with all the Protestant young gentlemen of the place, the handsome well-dressed young persons whom your honour sees in the church on the Sundays, when your honour goes there in the morning, with the rest of the Protestant military; for it is no Papist school, though there may be a Papist or two there—a few poor farmers’ sons from the country, with whom there is no necessity for your honour’s child to form any acquaintance at all, at all!’
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

This marriage of the Dauphin will put you gentlemen of Flanders in such high favour that we poor ancient servants of the King will be forgotten in the cold—God grant he thinks so!
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

“If any further steps are taken, and if I can in any way assist in promoting your good object, you may command my services.
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

About this time his Majesty was riding on horseback near his barracks, when a pretty young girl of fifteen or sixteen, dressed in white, her face bathed in tears, threw herself on her knees in his path.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

As a climax (if your conscience will permit you), give one or two “assisted” shots, so as to end brilliantly.
— from The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It by Walter Winans