To be compelled to run away before the yelling pack, every dog of which, for three years, he had thrashed and mastered, was almost more than he could endure.
— from White Fang by Jack London

‘Meanwhile, the young prince, effectually disguised, wandered on foot through his father’s dominions, cheered and supported in all his hardships by sweet thoughts of the Athenian maid, who was the innocent cause of his weary trials.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The young proprietor evidently desired to ask some more questions of the peasants.
— from A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Well, I've been there this six weeks, doing all sorts of things, you know taking your place, Ellen don't you wish you was back in it?
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Two daughters were born to them, the elder of whom lived only a few hours; the younger, Princess Elizabeth, died in the first year of her age.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

The young pianist evidently did not consider that his musical education was complete, for at the end of the tour he returned to Warsaw and studied for two years at the Conservatoire there.
— from Ignaz Jan Paderewski by Edward Algernon Baughan

Baskets of food were driven to the scene; the fires under the great, iron kettles were kept replenished; everybody stirred the bubbling sap, ate, gabbled; the young people even danced on the grass.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

Yet they were all clean and tidy, and the young people especially did look exceeding happy, it being with them a famous holiday.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

He looked no different from any of the thousands of coolies in their monotonous blue that you passed every day in the crowded streets of the city.
— from On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

She occupied herself in good works for the poor about Montoire, and so two years passed, each day making her happier and more beautiful.
— from The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens

If you want to save begin with the butcher and the brewer—not that I for one moment want to run down beer—my husband being a brewer, I should not be likely to do so; and I mention this fact to show I cannot be a rabid teetotaler—but I do say and maintain that beer is not necessary for women and for women servants, that young people especially do not require stimulants—I, for one, never took either wine or beer until I had passed the pleasant age of thirty-one or thirty-two—and that milk is far better for both servants and children, youths and maidens, than malt liquor of any sort or description, and that therefore milk should be a somewhat large item in the housekeeping accounts.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton