In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words; Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart, Crying, “Long live!
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

"Who is that handsome young man I caught tête-a-tête with you, Clara?"
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

“Bellissima was sitting in the wood when you passed, and saw you with the Fairy of the Desert, who was so cleverly disguised that the Princess took her to be prettier than herself; you may imagine her despair, for she thought that you had fallen in love with her.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Simoun stopped him with a gesture, and, as the dawn was coming, said to him: “Young man, I am not warning you to keep my secret, because I know that discretion is one of your good qualities, and even though you might wish to sell me, the jeweler Simoun, the friend of the authorities and of the religious corporations, will always be given more credit than the student Basilio, already suspected of filibusterism, and, being a native, so much the more marked and watched, and because in the profession you are entering upon you will encounter powerful rivals.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

“Nay,” answered Partridge, “if you do not wish to have your mistress in your arms you are a most extraordinary lover indeed.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you, Within the house, your mistress is at hand; And bring your music forth into the air.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The house you mean is called Manilovka because Manilovka is its name; but no house at all is called ZAmanilovka.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Just as she reached the spot, Waymark's arm dropped in weariness; he flung the howling young monkey into one corner, the stick into another, and deliberately pulled his coat-sleeves into position once more.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

Women spoke to him; young men in flashy overcoats and with a peculiar, assertive, animal swing to their shoulders loitered before the theatres or in the doorways of the hotels; from an upstairs restaurant came the voice of another young man singing a popular song of the street.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

I should prefer to have you manifest it in a less dangerous place.
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Pray to him, your Mammon, in the days of your need; there will be no other consolation for you. Carouse, laugh, and be cruel to-day; to-morrow you will be hungry and you will groan:
— from I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger

King [Pg 216] Oscar followed, at the head of a company of officers and nobles, among whom was his second son, Prince Oscar, the handsomest young man in Stockholm.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor

"This here young man is a son of his."
— from A Sailor in Spite of Himself by Harry Castlemon

They were filled with horrible dreams of disgrace, imprisonment, and all the misfortunes that healthy young minds in torment could bring up.
— from The Submarine Boys on Duty Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat by Victor G. Durham

Anyone would have been proud of the twelve handsome young men I called my sons.
— from Legendary Heroes of Ireland by Harold F. Hughes