Cosette, with that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“What kind of a bird, do you think?”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

‘What a bad disposition you have, Peggotty!’ returned my mother.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Did they go and each lay a brick, do you suppose?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Jimmie," she said, and her rich voice above the tumult was clear as a bell, "do you know how great you are?"
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

" "Yes," cried Dejah Thoris, "come with us, Sola, you will be better off among the red men of Helium than you are here, and I can promise you not only a home with us, but the love and affection your nature craves and which must always be denied you by the customs of your own race.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“He can institute proceedings against you in the criminal court, which would cause you immense anxiety and bring down your good name to the dust, even though you be the most innocent, the most just of men.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Uncle Cliff,” she asked, as they cantered briskly off down the drive, Solomon pelting along behind, “ do you mind my keeping you waiting?”
— from A Texas Blue Bonnet by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

You'll excuse my asking, but do you never talk to each other except through the medium of a third person? MISS FARRINGDON (to GERALD).
— from First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

“Well, if you can’t keep a badge do you think you can keep a secret?
— from Tom Slade on Mystery Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The question "How much are you worth?" is not answered by discussing your bodily conditions, for your body is not yourself.
— from What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen

But finding our boy in the wrong, he arraigned him, and began, 'Did you strike Jake with malice aforethought?'
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

“Ay, but do you know how to hunt them?” “Not exactly; but I suppose we may depend upon the instinct of the dogs.”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

I 22 wished, so very much, to ornament her room with flowers, to surprise her, that though I was sorry to see the lamb in pain, and bleeding, do you know, mamma, I was near leaving it where it was, and gathering the bow-pot, instead of carrying it to Miss Beauchamp.
— from Julia and the Pet-Lamb; or, Good Temper and Compassion Rewarded by Anonymous

He jumped furiously, and broke down young trees in his flight, but it only served to retard his progress.
— from Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian by Anonymous

Nevertheless he ventured to falter out:— "Has anything been done yet?" "Well, no; I can't say that anything—that is, that anything has been COMPLETED; but I may say we are in excellent position for an advance—ha, ha!
— from Drift from Two Shores by Bret Harte

Since I wrote the last chapter of this book, I read in a criticism of Stanley Houghton’s Play Trust the People , this sentence describing the Lancashire ‘father an old mill-hand and the homely mother to match’: ‘They are both drawn, you feel, to the life, and talk with ease, not to say gusto, that curious lingo which seems to an outsider mainly distinguished by its contemptuous neglect of the definite article’, The Times , Friday, Feb. 7, 1913.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright