They offered me their heart-felt thanks for the handsome present I had given to the young lady.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The thing you long for and work for comes to you because your thought has created it; because there is something inside you that attracts it.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

No; go through your compliments to the young lady in the meantime.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

It is not necessary to make any guesses on the subject, however; for the sudden entrance of the two young ladies whom Oliver had seen on a former occasion, caused the conversation to flow afresh.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

`But tak this, that ye loveres ofte eschuwe, Or elles doon of good entencioun, 345 Ful ofte thy lady wole it misconstrue, And deme it harm in hir opinioun;
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

And so with the two young ladies by coach to my house, and gave them some entertainment, and so late at night sent them home with Captain Ferrers by coach.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If you have no reason to feel a becoming pride before wax-work children, there are young ladies here who have, and you must either defer to those young ladies or leave the establishment, Miss Edwards.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

“I am too old to tell you lies, for I have passed my seventieth year.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

But still, if you will neither take our part in that indignation we have at these men, nor judge between us, the third thing I have to propose is this, that you let us both alone, and neither insult upon our calamities, nor abide with these plotters against their metropolis; for though you should have ever so great a suspicion that some of us have discoursed with the Romans, it is in your power to watch the passages into the city; and in case any thing that we have been accused of is brought to light, then to come and defend your metropolis, and to inflict punishment on those that are found guilty; for the enemy cannot prevent you who are so near to the city.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

To even things up, the master would then thrash the younger lads, so you can think what sort of school it was.
— from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

Now, I’m going to turn you loose for the afternoon, Allan,” he added.
— from The Young Train Master by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Some later critic pointed out that a missing comma after Undecimilla, the name of a handmaid, made all the difference, assuming that two young ladies were a more reasonable and probable number than eleven thousand.
— from The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy

Her train was more than two yards long."
— from The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner

I think that you learned of your father’s death, which you have now forgotten, and were overcome with the news.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He was a wiry, hard-faced and shifty-eyed Mexican, but was as thoroughly devoted to Ramerrez as he had been to the young leader's father.
— from The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco

Among others Clemens paid the way of two colored students, one through a Southern institution and another through the Yale law school.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain