“You know what Athos told you the other day; you eat at everybody’s mess.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Presently Pat appeared as required, and the proprietor said: "Now Pat, you must stand behind these two chairs, and wait on the gentlemen who will occupy them; did you ever act as a waiter?
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

You offer aid, you threaten hostilities: we despise your enmity and your aid.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I was a month or two with Lihachof after his father died, your excellency, and while he was knocking about—he’s in the debtor’s prison now—I was with him, and he couldn’t do a thing without Lebedeff; and I got to know Nastasia Philipovna and several people at that time.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As you look over the pond westward you are obliged to employ both your hands to defend your eyes against the reflected as well as the true sun, for they are equally bright; and if, between the two, you survey its surface critically, it is literally as smooth as glass, except where the skater insects, at equal intervals scattered over its whole extent, by their motions in the sun produce the finest imaginable sparkle on it, or, perchance, a duck plumes itself, or, as I have said, a swallow skims so low as to touch it.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“Doctor ... your Excellency ... and will it be soon, soon?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I decree That it be so—and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

How far did you enjoy all that the produce of distant lands and the service of many people had prepared for you at the other dinner?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Did you ever attend with her a Planned Parenthood meeting or session, visit?
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Did you ever assign anybody to Main and Pearl?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Come, dry your eyes and go with me to the parlor.
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

Did you ever ask her? O'FLAHERTY.
— from O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet by Bernard Shaw

Doesn’t your Ayah dress you every afternoon?”
— from Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Do you enjoy arranging the cotton-wool wadding so that there may be no chance of a nasty jar, to say nothing of a breakage?"
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

‘Mary, did you ever ask yourself what sort of woman Nancy’s mother may have been?’
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

"What do you expect a man to do under such circumstances—to—a—kiss you?"
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

“Do you expect any more passengers?”
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth