Go and fetch Dunsey, as I tell you, and let him give account of what he wanted the money for, and what he's done with it.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

None need therefore fancy that Sicily only is in question; Peloponnese will be so also, unless you speedily do as I tell you, and send on board ship to Syracuse troops that shall able to row their ships themselves, and serve as heavy infantry the moment that they land; and what I consider even more important than the troops, a Spartan as commanding officer to discipline the forces already on foot and to compel recusants to serve.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

But as I fail to discover, after investigation, that you are endeavouring to do us a mischief—and I am quite sure that nothing of the sort has ever entered our heads with regard to you—the best plan seemed to me to come and talk the matter over with you, so that, if possible, we might dispel the mutual distrust on either side.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The maid comforted her and going in quest of Pyrrhus found him merry and well-disposed and said to him, 'Pyrrhus I showed thee, a few days agone, in 355 what a fire my lady and thine abideth for the love she beareth thee, and now anew I certify thee thereof, for that, an thou persist in the rigour thou showedst the other day, thou mayst be assured that she will not live long; wherefore I prithee be pleased to satisfy her of her desire, and if thou yet abide fast in thine obstinacy, whereas I have still accounted thee mighty discreet, I shall hold thee a blockhead.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

For Polixenes, With whom I am accus'd, I do confess I lov'd him as in honour he requir'd; With such a kind of love as might become A lady like me; with a love even such, So and no other, as yourself commanded; Which not to have done, I think had been in me Both disobedience and ingratitude To you and toward your friend; whose love had spoke, Ever since it could speak, from an infant, freely, That it was yours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Do as I told you, and make a new staircase.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In a very short time after I went to Baltimore, my old master’s youngest son, Richard, died; and, in three years and six months after his death, my old master himself died, leaving only his son, Andrew, and his daughter, Lucretia, to share his estate.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"I think we can have revenge if all of you will do as I tell you, and if I am not much mistaken those Goblin fellows will remember us the next time they have a frolic, even if they do not need us.
— from Sandman's Goodnight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker

I shall expect you to do as I tell you, and be guided by my advice in everything."
— from Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Do as I tell you, and give me your hand!"
— from Castle Hohenwald: A Romance by Adolf Streckfuss

“Alan, it was a brave deed, and I thank you a thousand times!”
— from Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch

Now, Eileen Macarthy," he continued, turning to his unhappy little prisoner, "ye are to do as I till ye, an' no harrum'll coom to ye, an' maybe good.
— from Toto's Merry Winter by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Suppose the thing 'at seemed richt to yer lordship, seemed wrang to me, what wad ye hae me du than?" "Do as I told you, and lay the blame on me."
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

'Do as I tell you, and ask no questions.'
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Just do as I tell you, and you'll go beautifully after a few turns.”
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott