He was on one occasion returning from Lacedæmon to Athens; and when some one asked him, “Whither are you going, and whence do you come?”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

3. 'When his knowledge is sufficient to attain, and he has virtue enough to hold fast; when he governs also with dignity, yet if he try to move the people contrary to the rules of propriety:— full excellence is not reached.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

he called out in his Gascon accent, “what do you want?
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Why, Gerwazy, ah why did you miss at that time?
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I saw the danger at the first glance and what do you think, I resolved not to look at her even.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was hidden behind the curtain of the inner room and I saw her vanish not by the glass, but in the glass!" "And what did you do?" "I thought it was an aberration of my senses, a mad dream.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

“What do I care about gentry, and what do you know about ’em?” said her father.
— from The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 1/2 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This galley affair; what do you think of it?”
— from The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin

When the old man stopped to water his horse at the spring gushing forth from the black slate rock, he said to the girl: "Anicza, when did you speak last with Fatia Negra?"
— from The Poor Plutocrats by Mór Jókai

"But, to be sober, I should really rejoice to come and see you, but if I wait till I get a (what did you call 'em?)
— from Abigail Adams and Her Times by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

How can there be an independent existence, or voluntary change of anything in the world; where can they or the world be, except in the essence and omnipresence of God, and wherefore do you think of them in vain?
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

“I told her who I was and that Jake was to be our guide, and, what do you think—” “Don’t stall.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Yellowstone National Park by Josephine Chase

‘Stop!’ cried Ernest, ‘where are you going, and what do you intend to do, and have you any money?’
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

"Well, Captain," said he one day, as he saw Arthur aloft, and going through his duties with great adroitness, "what do you think of our young seaman now?
— from The Rival Crusoes; Or, The Ship Wreck Also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Agnes Strickland

James's Gazette/." "And what do you need from me more than you have?"
— from A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"For goodness' gracious, and what do you look like, Poppy!"
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley