did I not give you a sufficient account of the elements’ transmutation, and the blunders that are made of roast for boiled, and boiled for roast?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
And did I not give you a far larger quantity than I promised?
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas
However, the difference is not great, yet young men ought not to view the paintings of Pauso, but of Polygnotus, or any other painter or statuary who expresses manners.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle
The Lord might say to him: "Did I not give you as good opportunities and as good capacities as the white man in whose midst you were?
— from The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888 by Various
Does it not grieve you now, and make you sigh, And very passionately accuse nature, And say she was too hard to make your woman Able to kiss you only, and do no more?
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley
Did I not give you the best strawberries in the dish and all my own cream?"
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
cried the lady, starting up from her recumbent position, "did I not give you a whole handful of shillings only the day before yesterday; and if you wasted it all on poor people since, what am I to do?
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various
did I not give you a sufficient account of the elements' transmutation, and the blunders that are made of roast for boiled, and boiled for roast?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by François Rabelais
You are pleased to give me so much reason to Think you interest yourself in my welfare That I cou'd not acquit myself of my Duty In not giving you this mark of my respect and the sense I have of your goodness.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of
"Does it not give your mother a right, that the mother of this Page 179
— from Daisy by Susan Warner
Did I no gie ye th’ siller, Aaron?”
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish
Does it not give you the rank conception or image of a goat, or town-bull, or a satyr?
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley
Did I not give you a Fête ?
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton
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