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Look, doth it not go along by the wayside?
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan
"Look, doth it not go along by the wayside?"
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan
“Thither,” said Rowena, “do I NOT go; and I pray you to beware, lest what you mean for courage and constancy, shall be accounted hardness of heart.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
Did I not give a sufficient proof of my affection for you, in bestowing one of the first fortunes in England upon you?
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Often as it happened, when during the week I had been disappointed in not getting a cent from the very individuals from whom I most expected help, and when I was almost broken down and discouraged, that generous help has come from some one who I had had little idea would give at all.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Why with the time do I not glance aside To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
But as the officers were hauling him off, Æsop cried out, "Did I not give a proper reply?
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine
'My dear, I never gave a thought to it until I saw Mr. Fielding.
— from The Philanderers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
“My dear, I never get any encouragement to tell you my troubles.”
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey
It may be doubted whether this classification is altogether satisfactory, since the affinities of Aeolic with Ionic and Arcadian are by no means close; as much perhaps might be said for a division into 'North Greek' (Aeolic) and 'South Greek' (non-Aeolic).
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick
The Sesodia or Gohil tradition is that the founder of the Válas was Kanaksen, who, in the second century after Christ, from North India established his power at Virát or Dholka in North Gujarát and at Dhánk in Káthiáváḍa.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell
"You say that the defendant is 'not guilty,' and that is the verdict of you all?"
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris
The mileage is determined by imagining the synthesis developed into natural groups and measured laterally.
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan
“Tell me, Danny,” inquired Nathalie gently, as she laid her hand on the boy’s head, “how did you come to make a boy of your sister?”
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey
And indeed there plainly is a diminution in the purchasing power of money, though that diminution is not general and permanent, but local and temporary.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot
Does it not give a vivid reality to that world that we think of so vaguely?
— from The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth
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