What makes you so silent, child?—What is it that disturbs you now?' Emily suppressed a starting tear, and tried to smile away the expression of an oppressed heart; she was thinking of HER home, and felt too sensibly the arrogance and ostentatious vanity of Madame Cheron's conversation.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Do you not eat, sleep, and propagate like him, and nearly in the same attitudes?
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire
Did you notice 'em, sir, as you came in?"
— from The Bishop's Shadow by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston
he cried, “did you not expect such perfection?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
Do you not eat, sleep, propagate like him, even almost to the attitude?
— from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
“My poor child, did you never even see such a room?”
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
‘Did you not,’ he asked the trembling girl, ‘sacrifice the revenues of your dower, did you not even sell the necklace off your neck, to get funds for your magic incantations?’
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Did you not expect something of this kind?”
— from The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn
"But why," asked some one, "do you not espouse some Spanish girl of high descent?"
— from The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True Love by Jules Verne
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