How have you done as to letters of introduction in all these countries of which you now know so much?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

" "And what else have you done?" asked the old woman.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And what did she mean by boasting that she had got you to lend your support, your name, to a thing I have heard you describe as the most dishonest and fraudulent scheme there has ever been in political life?
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

This delighted her more than anything she had yet done; and the practice thus obtained prepared the way for the writing lessons.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

For the present she gazes, nothing doubting, into this grand theatricality; and thinks her young dreams are to be fulfilled.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This was finally agreed to, and the two doomed negroes were hurried to a pasture one hundred yards distant, and there asked to take their last chance of saving their lives by making a confession, but the Negroes made no reply.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The Goths, who considered themselves as the friends of peace, of justice, and of Rome, were directed by the authority of Fravitta, a valiant and honorable youth, distinguished above the rest of his countrymen by the politeness of his manners, the liberality of his sentiments, and the mild virtues of social life.
— 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

'Twere a concealment Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, To hide your doings and to silence that Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd, Would seem but modest.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Hardly had he arrived at Bona than he regained the vigor of his youthful days, and two hours after his landing Monte-Cristo was already on his way to the desert with a well-organized caravan.
— from The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina

Have you deserved all this?
— from Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

"What have you done?" asked the Earl.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

There are silly domestics who resent what they call the "meddling" of young ladies in the kitchen; but no wise woman will allow that to trouble her, but will take care to show her young daughters, as time and opportunity offer, every secret contained in the domestic répertoire .
— from Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Annie S. Swan

However, you do admit there's some other ideal of man than successful workingman."
— from The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips

This oration, made by old Incredulity, was seconded by desperate Willbewill, in words to this effect: ‘Gentlemen, we have heard your demands, and the noise of your threats, and have heard the sound of your summons; but we fear not your force, we regard not your threats, but will still abide as you found us.
— from The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul by John Bunyan

But we are even far from having yet done all that can perhaps be accomplished: I know of no translation of a Greek tragedian deserving of unqualified praise.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel