"You haven't time to think of it either," she told them; "have you, men of Tinkersfield?"
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Any one attempting to harm "young Mistress" or "old Mistress" during the night would have had to cross the dead body of the slave to do so.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Therese married to this handsome young man, of whom, of all others, I had made enquiries about her!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They had young men of the kind whom she, since her experience with Drouet, felt above, who took them about.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

And now, tell me, O Muses that hold your mansions on Olympus, how fire was thrown upon the ships of the Achaeans.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Does that have your mark on it?
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"What can I do to help you, Mr. Onthank?" shouted Tom.
— from The Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Professor Hommel hints that even the Hebrew Yahveh may once have been a title of the moon-god among the Western Semites of Babylonia.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Fancy carefully-organized fighting, with a hundred or two hundred young men on either side, ending in the wrecking of the premises of the losers—to the breaking down the plaster of the walls and the tearing up of the floor—all countenanced by staid University authorities and countenanced, too, by the police department of a municipality that prides itself on being the most up-to-date in the country!
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 128, November, 1908 by Various

Never cross the arms over the head; your mother or nearest relation will die.
— from Cuban Folk-Lore by L. Roy Terwilliger

I meant—you deserve to have your own way for a while; to be set down, and told to help yourself, and see what it will come to; to have your mother open the cupboard door for you, and leave you alone to your pleasures.
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

“‘Children, know that like the flowers You must quickly fade away: Life is short; improve the hours— You may only have to-day.
— from The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young by Philip Barrett

One day, in early spring, they had set out with a clear sky and fair wind, and had had one of the most fortunate voyages of any they had yet made on the Breton coast, when, just as they were within sight of the Point de Ray, which raises its bare and jagged head three hundred feet above the noisy waves which brawl at its base, an ominous cloud suddenly overspread the heavens, and the symptoms of a coming storm were but too apparent.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

The helpless young maggot of the wasp, which is fed solely by the parent, may be compared to the human infant, while the lusty young grasshopper, which immediately on hatching takes to the grass or clover field with all the enthusiasm of a duckling to its native pond, may be likened to that young feathered mariner.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard