The nurse as well as the preceptor of Caracalla were Christians; * and if that young prince ever betrayed a sentiment of humanity, it was occasioned by an incident, which, however trifling, bore some relation to the cause of Christianity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The faces of these young people, especially those who were military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems to say to the older generation, “We are prepared to respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs to us.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For the king of the north," (Antiochus the Great), "shall return with a [Pg 213] greater multitude than before, and in those times also a great number of enemies shall stand up against the king of the south," (during the reign of the young Ptolemy Epiphanes); "also the apostates and robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall."
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

‘Though at the same time,’ added Miss La Creevy, who was plainly wavering between her good-nature and her interest, ‘I have nothing whatever to say against the lady, who is extremely pleasant and affable, though, poor thing, she seems terribly low in her spirits; nor against the young people either, for nicer, or better-behaved young people cannot be.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And with the fairy spell upon him the young prince entered the glass boat of the fairy woman, and his father the king, in great tribulation and wonder, beheld them disappear across the waters never to return.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

As a case in point let us take your present exile from what you deem your country.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[33] Some of these yet possess entire villages, which are subject to the payment of a small quit-rent: they also constitute a local militia, to be called in by the governor of the district, but for which service they are entitled to rations or peti .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I do not care to indulge myself in idle hopes, and I thought I had spoken to you plainly enough.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As for the young princes, each of them said, “I’ll go,” “I’ll go.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

How mankind ever came to be afflicted with wiglomeration, or for whose sins these young people ever fell into a pit of it, I don't know; so it is."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The young people especially were his faithful followers.
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank

Every year pilgrims pass through the bronze gateway of the Zo-o-do Temple and climb the mountain side to rest beneath the canopy of tender, billowy blossom, which broods like an ever-renascent cloud of beauty above the Yamato plain, endeared by thirteen centuries of history and romance.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

My brother has taken Young People ever since it started, and now we could hardly do without it.
— from Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

The yellow press especially luxuriates in them; woodcuts the callow bedizened bride, the jaded game-worn groom; dilates upon the big money interchanged; glows over the tin-plate stars and imaginary garters and pinchbeck crowns; and keeping the pictorial paraphernalia in cold but not forgotten storage waits for the inevitable scandal, and then, with lavish exaggeration, works the old story over again.
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

Two young people, each eminently agreeable, are thrown together by fate in circumstances of great and continuous personal danger.
— from His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy

“You know that I’ll never take your place; even if I live I will not!” said Edgar vehemently.
— from Maud Florence Nellie; or, Don't care! by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

" "You shouldn't think of such a thing," said I; and then I stood silent, and my mind showed me two young people, each mounted, not upon a swift steed, but upon a far swifter pair of wheels, skimming onward through the summer air, still rolling on, on, on, through country lanes and woodland roads, laughing at pursuit if they heard the trampling of eager hoofs behind them, with never a telegraph wire to stretch menacingly above them, and so on, on, on, their eyes sparkling, their hearts beating high with youthful hope.
— from A Bicycle of Cathay by Frank Richard Stockton