I rec'lect when Shorty was a mighty promisin' young fellow before Brad Steelman got a-holt of him.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

He could imagine old Paul saying, ‘Well, Antonia, my pet, you see this young friend of ours has shown us all the way.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

The eldest, Solomon, was a most pious youth, and his third girl, Neshamah, promised to be a rare beauty."
— from The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

She was a Miss Pollard, you know, a very good family, and, as I always understood, the more one knows of her the better one likes her.
— from Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

He said she was a mighty pretty young woman.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

She was a most practical young flirt, with a very distinct intention of having her own way as long as she lived.
— from The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

She was a most presentable young person, this wife of the Australian millionaire, she decided.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn