Examples from literature

• But I'm an old woman, I am, and I've never had time to be a young one, and I've never had a beau nor nothing. 
• I suppose you've had a beau some time or other. 
• Is he your beau? 
• Once he told her frankly that if she ever got a beau, he—Jimmy—was going to quit. 
• Why, I vow, I could sometimes have taken him for a beau.