Well, granted that it was only a dream, yet the sensation of the love of those innocent and beautiful people has remained with me for ever, and I feel as though their love is still flowing out to me from over there.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But, masters, here are your parts; and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse; for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg'd with company, and our devices known.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

George had taken it firmly, and held it away from him, and had begun to unravel it as if he were taking the swaddling clothes off a new-born infant; and, before he had unwound a dozen yards, the thing was more like a badly-made door-mat than anything else.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

And do you think, cousin, that it has cost me no pang?—that it has left no anguish in my bosom, from that day to this, amidst all the prosperity with which Heaven has blessed me?—or that I do not now rejoice, when it is deemed consistent with the dues of public justice and the welfare of society that this dear kinsman, this early friend, this nature so delicately and beautifully constituted,—so unfortunate, let us pronounce him, and forbear to say, so guilty,—that our own Clifford, in fine, should be given back to life, and its possibilities of enjoyment?
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She sat like one in a dream; yet the truth seemed to flash upon her at once.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

‘And do you think,’ returned Ralph, rising, ‘and do you think, you will so easily crush me ?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I replied; and if we asked him what due or proper thing is given by medicine, and to whom, what answer do you think that he would make to us?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

" "And do you think, Clara, that I should think any sacrifice too great a one if it were made for you?
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

175 `And shortly, dere herte and al my knight, Beth glad, and draweth yow to lustinesse,
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

That is the real meaning of the 'sobriety' that some people are always desiring you to cultivate.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

'Aylmer, do you think we had better talk about it?'
— from Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

We call for proof; bring on your reasons, gentlemen, if you have any; we shrink not from the investigation, and dare you to the encounter.
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

He smiled across at her; the sarcastic note was strong in his voice as he asked: "Do you think me an impatient man?
— from Double Harness by Anthony Hope

And do you think I'm going to renounce my birthright?
— from Vassall Morton: A Novel by Francis Parkman

"And do you think, that no one but yourself would go to that outlandish place."
— from Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma

And do you think you could help me to find the cuckoo?" he added insinuatingly.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth

And do you think, my excellent friend, that a musician when he adjusts the lyre would desire or claim to exceed or go beyond a musician in the tightening and loosening the strings?
— from The Republic by Plato

"Porter has a good, long start of us," remarked Clancy, an exultant note in his voice, "but on these buzz buggies we ought to be able to travel a dozen yards to his one."
— from Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail; Or, The Fugitive Professor by Burt L. Standish