"Will these young ladies ever really amount to anything?" inquired Halkett.
— from The Girl Philippa by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

With a quick, cat-like movement she concealed Ackerman’s letter in her bosom, smoothed her dress, and as the young lawyer entered, rose and greeted him with a gracious smile.
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Sure enough, there were three young ladies, evidently resting after a mountain climb, for their alpenstocks were lying beside them, and one, a bright, black-eyed girl wearing a stylish red jacket, was fanning herself with her broad hat.
— from A Missionary Twig by Emma L. Burnett

I thought that you would wish me to show the young ladies every respect.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

An intimacy then existed between him and Washington, which was maintained afterwards by a friendly correspondence, and which twenty years later ended regretfully when they appeared, opposed to each other, at the head of contending armies, the one obeying the commands of his sovereign and the other upholding the cause of his people.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark