" He continued to scan the blistered brown stone front, the windows draped with discoloured lace, and the Pompeian decoration of the muddy vestibule; then he looked back at her face and said with a visible effort: "You'll let me come and see you some day?" She smiled, recognizing the heroism of the offer to the point of being frankly touched by it.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Distinctly she had understood, from the Leila Grey conversation, that Bobby Martin was a very eligible young man and yet here was her cousin flouting any financial congratulation.
— from The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley

She told Mellicent this morning that he was a very estimable young man, and she liked him very much.
— from Oh, Money! Money! A Novel by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

"I have neither put into port nor have I entered into communication with any vessel excepting your yacht, so obtaining information by those means is entirely out of the question.
— from The Sea Monarch by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

He was a very estimable young man.
— from Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Horace Smith

“What a very excellent young man,” mused the reverend divine, as he scurried through his calls.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

Alfred de Musset, as the author of "Rolla," was a very extraordinary young man—quite the young man of whom Heinrich Heine could say "he has a magnificent past before him."
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

There was a very elegant young gentleman in a black coat, with a smattering of English, who led the talk at once to the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
— from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson

“That was a very eloquent young gent at the 'Constantinople,' and I'll patronize him.”
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

He stood there with a very eventful year's better acquaintance between himself and the country, than when he had presented himself on the corresponding Friday of the preceding year.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

As the girl and her partner approached, Lady Smith-Evered whispered that Lord Barthampton seemed very attracted to Muriel; and she repeated her assertion that he was a very eligible young man.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall