To whom the yawning pilot, half asleep: “Me dost thou bid to trust the treach’rous deep, The harlot smiles of her dissembling face, And to her faith commit the Trojan race?
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

But all in vain; those young Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve?
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

And every one thought that the young people had a very charming little home.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“These young parties have a way of looking at one, sir,” he would say apologetically, “which I don’t call respectable.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The young prince had already succeeded in winning the favour of the people and the court.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

As for the past two years people have amused themselves by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess Bezúkhova.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Thank you, Princess,” he added softly.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“I took your place,” he added.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Here the young persons handled, adjusted, and knocked about more or less adroitly the formula on God, nature, the soul and science they had learned by rote.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Billie voiced the unanimous opinion, and a few minutes later the young people had all sought their beds, leaving instructions with the physician and the servants that they were to be called if any change for the worse occurred in Santiago's condition.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes by Frank Fowler

'I don't care to have any garden of my own, thank you, papa,' he answered; 'I'm happier without it than with it, and there's plenty of work for me here.
— from Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford

How much he derived from those who went before him, it is not for us to say, but this disciple, herself a devoted student and admirer of the world's latest teacher, Leo Tolstoy, yet puts Hans Andersen above him, as having attained in practically all his work what Tolstoy attained only occasionally— i.e. Tolstoy's own ideal of what Art should be and do.
— from The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Various

The marriage of her daughter Henrietta to Philip of Orleans, then Duc d’Anjou, was celebrated here with great pomp, and here the young princess held a brilliant court for a few years, while her mother dwelt in the cloistered retreat of Chaillot.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

And the worthy rector, taking courage from the fact that he had known Leopold II for thirty years, preached him a long sermon.
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

In the rosy light of the morning the young prince hastened across the dewy lawn on his way to his mother.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

"Take your place here at the door," replied the minister.
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai