she said at length, “do you not answer me?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Why do you not ask Marianne at once," said she, "whether she is or she is not engaged to Willoughby?
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

We must make this last sacrifice to human malignity, in order to have the right to love each other openly afterwards; do you not agree, my beloved?
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

And if he hath failed in his duty here, did you not as much exceed that authority when you absolutely bargained with him for a woman, without his knowledge, whom you yourself never saw, and whom, if you had seen and known as well as I, it must have been madness in you to have ever thought of bringing her into your family?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

For since I sought By prayer the offended Deity to appease; Kneeled, and before him humbled all my heart; Methought I saw him placable and mild, Bending his ear; persuasion in me grew That I was heard with favour; peace returned Home to my breast, and to my memory His promise, that thy seed shall bruise our foe; Which, then not minded in dismay, yet now Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

And ever pray to God for thee.’ Ach, Shatushka, Shatushka, my dear, why do you never ask me about anything?” “Why, you won’t tell.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And why, Ivan Grigorievitch, do YOU not ask Monsieur Chichikov precisely what his purchases have consisted of?
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Do you not admit Mollineux to your table with your other helps?”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

“Why, my dear son, do you not ask M. de l’Abbadie to render you that service?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"Why do you not answer me?" she persisted.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

'Michael, why do you not answer me?'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Did I not tell you then that I hated you; and did you not accept my defiance?”
— from Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms

"Did you notice a man loitering about—a stranger—middle-aged, dark-complexioned, with a dark beard or moustache—rather striking in appearance—perhaps a little dissolute?"
— from That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson

“Ace, did you notice any mud along that passageway?
— from Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee

And you, Sir Doctor, instead of sitting there grinning your approbation of my opinion, why do you not aid me to convince this gentleman?”
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

"Gerald, why do you not answer me?"
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

'Why did you not ask me to accompany you, instead of asking Sleaford?'
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

Did you not approve my acceptance of M. Olivier's offer?
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

"Why did you not attend Mrs. Stillwater to her room?" sternly demanded the Iron King, fixing his eyes severely on his granddaughter, as soon as the visitor was out of hearing.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth