My mother’s party from Flesberg and Lyngdal parishes in Numedal, took seven weeks and four days in 1843 with the brig Hercules , Captain Overvind, between Drammen and New York; my father’s company from Sogndal in Inner Sogn, three years later, lay for fourteen weeks heaving and lunging in contrary winds between Bergen and the promised land.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Captain Adams,’ said the young lord, looking hurriedly about him, and addressing one of those who had interposed, ‘let me speak with you, I beg.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Come, do you deny seeing this young lady last night?
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

I have always said to you, let lawsuits alone; I have always said to you, raid them, make a foray 97 on them.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Oh, do come soon to your loving "Little Beth." 213 "Ma Chere Mamma,— "We are all
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The next noteworthy move in Jude's life was that in which he appeared gliding steadily onward through a dusky landscape of some three years' later leafage than had graced his courtship of Arabella, and the disruption of his coarse conjugal life with her.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I thought I perceived that Miss Lavinia would have uncommon satisfaction in superintending two young lovers, like Dora and me; and that Miss Clarissa would have hardly less satisfaction in seeing her superintend us, and in chiming in with her own particular department of the subject whenever that impulse was strong upon her.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"I hope not," said the young lady, looking alarmed.
— from The Train Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"In years perhaps." "How gravely you take me up!" said the young lady, laughing.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

"Do you mean to tell me," said the young lady, looking up in my face, "that I can't be saved until I forgive her?"
— from Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist by Dwight Lyman Moody

I told him, I would die first: He replied, with a Sneer, that young Ladies, like me, [177] seldom kill’d themselves, and that they were made for Enjoyment; and then turn’d upon his Heel, with as careless an Air, as a Man would part with his Paroquet, when he had shut her up close in her gilded Cage.
— from Zadig; Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

[Sharply.] Come, do you deny seeing this young lady last night?
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

“I hope her late master was a man of taste, and has some good curry and plenty of cuddy stores,” said the young lord, laughing; “and I say, Jager, I wish you’d ask the captain to send me back the French cook.
— from The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston

"I suppose you will tell me next," said the young lady, laughing, "that you are sorry to hear me say so."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner