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— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

do you come
and why do you come to me?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

down you can
The Tolampoos of Celebes believe that if you write a man’s name down you can carry off his soul along with it.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Do you cut
Do you cut your pages with it, or what?” asked Muishkin, still rather absently, as though unable to throw off a deep preoccupation into which the conversation had thrown him.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

do you care
“What makes you say that, Lucy?” “What do you care?
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

dolts you can
He called them all the fools and dolts you can imagine, said it was necessary I should talk to the doctor, fluttered the chart in their faces, asked them if they could afford to break the treaty the very day they were bound a-treasure-hunting.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

delicate Your claws
The maiden liked her dashing wooer, Her boisterous, reckless, blustering suer, And playing with the creature's main, Combed it, and smoothed it o'er again; The prudent father, half afraid To spurn the lover of the maid, Said, "But my daughter's delicate, Your claws may hurt your little mate;
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

do you come
How do you come to know so much about the psychology of the leisure class?”
— from King Coal : a Novel by Upton Sinclair

drunk you can
Come, come, Arthur, I shouldn't know you, my boy; you're not drunk, you can't be drunk."
— from Monsieur Cherami by Paul de Kock

did you call
"What did you call him?" asked Miss Damer, frankly curious.
— from Happy-go-lucky by Ian Hay

Does your colonel
"Does your colonel know that you have debts?"
— from Life in a German Crack Regiment by Baudissin, Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil, Graf von

do you call
6:46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

dense yellow clouds
The front German trench north of the Farm was reached and occupied, but before the position was properly established dense yellow clouds of poison gas issued from the enemy lines and, being gently wafted by the breeze, bore down on our defenceless troops.
— from The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 by F. Clive Grimwade

Do you care
Do you care to take the check with you now, or....”
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne


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