“Are you really sure, Godfrey, that you are so fond of me as that?” “Sure!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

"Olive Kirk asked you to help when we first thought of the concert and you refused," said Rilla.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

exclaimed Passepartout, "to be burned alive!" "Yes," returned Sir Francis, "burned alive.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

If you'll just take one or two of the most necessary sort—I won't venture to describe them to a lady like you, but you'll recognise Page 263 [Pg 263] them at a glance—and put them through the wash-tub as we go along, why, it'll be a pleasure to you, as you rightly say, and a real help to me.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement; when hearing her brother mentioning a ball to Miss Bennet, she turned suddenly towards him and said, "By the bye, Charles, are you really serious in meditating a dance at Netherfield?—I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom a ball would be rather a punishment than a pleasure."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

You saw him pass, and you recognized strength; you heard him speak, and you felt the will, which is more than strength.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

‘No—in another year,’ replied she, gently disengaging herself from my embrace, but still fondly clasping my hand.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And yet report says they are soon to be united.”
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

Are you really serious?
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

But time, though old, is strong in flight, And years rolled swiftly by; And Autumn's falling leaves proclaimed This good old man must die!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Are you really sorry?
— from The Odd Women by George Gissing

Men entreat you to show yourself to them and you refuse; still, without having seen you, they are convinced of your vast perfections and benefits.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

“Are you right sure he ain’t at home attending to his business?”
— from Crooked Trails and Straight by William MacLeod Raine