'Now, sir,' said Mr Boffin, 'look at this young lady on my arm.' Original Bella involuntarily raising her eyes, when this sudden reference was made to herself, met those of Mr Rokesmith.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

'I say to you, sir,' Mr Boffin repeated, 'look at this young lady on my arm.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"Verily, I beseech you: take your leave of me and arm yourselves against Zarathustra!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

‘But here your friend, Summertrees,’ said the young lawyer, ‘offers me a letter to this Redgauntlet of yours—What say you to that?’
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

The way that he took led the main body of the huntsmen, with the young lord of Montsoreau and the Abbé of Boisguerin, into a track, from which the other side of the valley was not visible; and their own eagerness, the cries of the numerous dogs, and the shouts and halloos of the huntsmen, prevented them from hearing those sounds which had attracted the attention of Charles of Montsoreau.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 1 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I here saw two or three young ladies of my acquaintance engaged in confederacies of which the world has had no suspicion, and the apparitions bore an exact resemblance to the ladies themselves.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

Remember me affectionately to all the young ladies of my acquaintance, particularly the Miss Burwells, and Miss Potters, and tell them that though that heavy earthly part of me, my body, be absent, the better half of me, my soul, is ever with them, and that my best wishes shall ever attend them.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Amongst others he took a special interest in Kenneth Og, and Farquhar Mackintosh, the young lairds of Mackenzie and Mackintosh, who were cousins, their mothers being sisters, daughters of John, last Lord of the Isles.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

I find the young ladies of Montbéliard as familiar with the works of Currer Bell and Mrs. Gaskell as among ourselves.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

In fact, I look on you now as an old acquaintance, and I should be sorry to think you looked on me as an enemy."
— from In a Steamer Chair, and Other Stories by Robert Barr