" "That's the very reason you ought to go away at once, so that you may escape it.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

And, after some small space, being strong at heart, He sent me hither, stranger as I am, To tell this story, that you might excuse His broken promise, and to give this napkin, Dy'd in his blood, unto the shepherd youth
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Thank you, count—thank you,” said the young man, evidently embarrassed how to begin the conversation; “yes, everyone in my family is well.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

'I shall see you again to-night?' said the young man, eagerly.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

“I am to understand, then,” he said, “that your marriage engagement is broken off?”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But though you may start at any one of these ten squares, you are restricted as to those at which you can end, or (which is the same thing) you may end at whichever of these you like, provided you begin your tour at certain particular squares.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

You know what follows: for abuses are thrown out by these brothers with great bitterness in every other verse; so that you may easily know them for the sons of Atreus, of that Atreus who invented a new punishment for his brother: I who his cruel heart to gall am bent, Some new, unheard-of torment must invent.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

You know, I suppose, that you must escort me there?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then she said to Dorothy, harshly and severely, "Come with me; and see that you mind everything I tell you, for if you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"But surely," said the young man, earnestly, "justice is not dead in the kingdom; and though more than a reign is past, some of those old friends are living.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

You'll let her work here, alongside of you?' said the young man eagerly.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

And this discussion came up when these former students from Beauregard came on the program, or on the air at this TV station and said that Lee Harvey Oswald had always been involved in fights when he was a young man, and the purport of that was that he was belligerent and difficult to get along with, and this is something that you might expect from a fellow like that, but your mother did not have that opinion?
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

This coming council may save society, and on that I would speak to you most earnestly.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I've been suspecting that young man ever since this morning.
— from The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

“However,” said the sexton, “this young man Edgar is like to avenge my wrangs on the haill of his kindred.”
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

She was immediately followed by the chief, who, quickly handling his oar, sent the light craft, with a single stroke, some rods into the lake, when, partially turning its bow towards the spot where Claud was standing on the shore, he said: "Should the young man ever stray from his companions in the hunt, or find himself weary, or wet, or cold, or in want of food, when out on the borders of the Molechunk-a-munk, let him feel, and doubt not, that he will be welcome to the lodge of Wenongonet."
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

"No," says the young man, "excuse me: I have not the time."
— from A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We have in this Discourse (as necessity required) disgress'd something from the main Design of what you desir'd; it appears from what has been already said, that you must either mean, 1.
— from The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

Besides the frequent opportunities afforded me of scrutinising the young men engaged in the game of ball, in which great strength and activity are displayed, or when enjoying the almost daily bath and swimming or diving, I judged of the muscular size of their legs by trying on their boots, which, in nearly all cases, were far too large for me, although the feet, on the other hand, were frequently smaller than mine.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters