What Remains, what Impressions, what Difference or Distinction, do you see in this Mass of Fire?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Me do order dat you have no money given you, for you deserve punishment, not reward; me do order derefore, dat you be de infamous gypsy, and do wear pair of horns upon your forehead for one month, and dat your wife be called de whore, and pointed at all dat time; for you be de infamous gypsy, but she be no less de infamous whore.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Mortified pride in discovering the fallacy of our own judgment; to be ashamed of what we love, yet still to love, are feelings most unpleasant; and though they assume not the dignity of deep distress, yet
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

Was he a strait-laced prig who disapproved of dancing, do you mean?”
— from The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

I am resolved to hazard these two or three pieces, to get as much as will pay for a passage with Captain Sharker, whose ship lies at Gravesend, bound for America—and so Eastward, ho!—I met one devil in the way already, who would have tempted me from my purpose, but I spurned him from me—you may be another for what I know.—What degree of damnation do you propose for me,” he added wildly, “and what is the price of it?”
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

Oh, dear, oh, dear; do you really suppose that I will be a very great violinist?”
— from Dorothy's Tour by Evelyn Raymond

“And what description of dress did you wear on that occasion?” asked Reilly.
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

“And where, O daughter of Dives, do you reside?” the doctor asked.
— from The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"Throw the door open, Dave," desired young Prescott.
— from The Grammar School Boys Snowbound; or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock