How could you do it, Clay?”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

“How can you doubt it?” replied Aramis; “this evening, to-morrow, always; command me.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

no podía caber ya duda de que el pergamino estaba en poder de aquel hombre ¡sentenciado a muerte!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Have a care you do not take those landmarks away which are, as it were, a divine and unshaken limitation of rights made by God himself, to last for ever; since this going beyond limits, and gaining ground upon others, is the occasion of wars and seditions; for those that remove boundaries are not far off an attempt to subvert the laws.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

By knowing the laws of the material universe you do not change your deeper humanity.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

" "Do not scold me, mother," answered Telemachus, "nor vex me, seeing what a narrow escape I have had, but wash your face, change your dress, go upstairs with your maids, and promise full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if Jove will only grant us our revenge upon the suitors.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

"What can you do?"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Can you disappoint that trusting affection?
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Mr Deasy said I was to copy them off the board, sir. —Can you do them yourself?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Now, Mr. Wilson, just come you down to terry-firmy , as you would say yourself.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Can you dry it on yonder thorn, Which never bore blossom since Adam was born?
— from Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein

"Can you do nothing more for Geoffrey?"
— from Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce

"McIntosh speaking, O.S.S. A Mr. R. L. Grant—that's not his name, but he's from Z-2—Yes, of course you do.
— from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin

It is quite true that man's savage instincts cannot be wholly eradicated; and it is likewise true that could you drain all the Berserker out of his blood he would sink to the level of an emasculated simian.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

If the word of a Douglas has yet any weight with you, believe me that this boy is innocent; and on your conscience I charge you, do him no wrong; nor let the Queen suffer hardship for embracing the opportunity of freedom which sincere loyalty—which a sentiment yet deeper—offered to her acceptance.
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

Alone what could you do against men who fight with metal over their heads and bodies that your arrows could not penetrate, and with swords and darts that would cut and pierce you through and through?
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If you did not wish him to come, there was nothing to do but to close your doors against him."
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I suppose that even in the country you change your dresses before dinner?"
— from The World Before Them: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3) by Susanna Moodie