do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet? Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

“Well,” said Milady, in a trembling voice, “why do you not enter?
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

As for that, said Balin, dread you not, we will do what we may.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"I dare say you think that a fairy can change other people as well as herself, do you not?" "Yes, ma'am; fairies do that in books," Elsie replied.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

"Where do your niggers hold Christmas?"
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Why then do you not draw it away from me, each of you by your own acts of kindness?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Nonsense, said Glaucon: did you not promise to search E yourself, saying that for you not to help justice in her need would be an impiety?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“Why did you not put your name to the note?”
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Did you notice, by the way, that Odette seemed all out for Forcheville, and I don't blame her, either.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

she said, using expressions borrowed from Mrs. M'Collop; "and as for disguising your nationality, do not flatter yourself that you look like anything but an American.
— from Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Did you not find the work too hard?"
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

We’ll wash you in milk, and dress you in silk, And write down your name with a gold pen and ink. —Derbyshire and Worcestershire (Mrs. Harley).
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

You tried to buy them, did you not, from a person who represented himself as the Reverend Richard Brabazon, because you believed he thought they were paste; and if you could, you would have given him 10 pounds or so for them.
— from An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen

"Eve ... did you not say to me, ' If I were stricken blind in this hour —'" she stopped.
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

“That’s why I say,” interrupted the deacon, “your Negro question has already been settled.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Do you not see that just so soon as the old self-confidence of America, just so soon as her old boasted advantage of individual liberty and opportunity, is taken away, all the energy of her people begins to subside, to slacken, to grow loose and pulpy, without fibre, and men simply cast about to see that the day does not end disastrously with them?
— from The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson

Do you not think so?"
— from Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath

Why do you not blame him?"
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern