Mahbub gave the money. 'Rememberest thou the little business of the thieves in the dark, down yonder at Umballa?' 'Seeing they sought my life, I have not altogether forgotten.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

"The present dread you are under seems to me to have seized upon you very unreasonably.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I tryed it by evaporation and it did yield an umberlike sediment: I have forgot the proportion.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

"Why do you ask us such a question?"
— from Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh

O rough-hewn god of the orchard, I bring you an offering— do you, alone unbeautiful, son of the god, spare us from loveliness: these fallen hazel-nuts, stripped late of their green sheaths, grapes, red-purple, their berries dripping with wine, pomegranates already broken, and shrunken figs and quinces untouched, I bring you as offering.
— from Sea Garden by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Do you all use such extraordinary accents, and such expressions?"
— from The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

"Do you accompany us, Sir, on this blessed crusade against crime and unbelief?" he asked.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics by Various

But for what reason do you ask us such questions, captain?"
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

‘How did you all get here?’ ‘Do you ask us?’ said Pedo Pompeius; ‘you most cruel of men, who killed us all?’
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

I did you and unwitting service when I sent your daughter to search among those musty old parchments.
— from Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"My dear, you are unduly suspicious.
— from The White Room by Fergus Hume