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Have you ever
Have you ever noticed anything of the sort in me? Krogstad .
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

Have you eyes
Have you eyes?
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

hold yourself entirely
I shall not change; but I wish you to hold yourself entirely free.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Had you ever
Had you ever any reason to suppose or believe that he was about to be married?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

have you ever
this I will advise you: First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa? PEDANT.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Have you ever
Have you ever read of the death of one Stepan Gleboff, in the eighteenth century?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Have you ever
Have you ever done anything, sir?’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

hear you exclaim
OXFORD IN THE VACATION Casting a preparatory glance at the bottom of this article—as the wary connoisseur in prints, with cursory eye (which, while it reads, seems as though it read not,) never fails to consult the quis sculpsit in the corner, before he pronounces some rare piece to be a Vivares, or a Woollet—methinks I hear you exclaim, Reader, Who is Elia?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

have you ever
Consider that his was a mind which shrank from pity: have you ever watched in such a mind the effect of a suspicion that what is pressing it as a grief may be really a source of contentment, either actual or future, to the being who already offends by pitying?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

house you enter
Again it cried, "Turn back, turn back, young maiden dear, 'Tis a murderer's house you enter here."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

he year en
lam 'im 'roun'.' "Brer Fox, he sorter scratch he year, en 'low:— "'Eh-eh, Brer Rabbit, I fear'd.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

him yet either
Do you see him yet, either of you?”
— from Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence Or, Solving the Mystery of the Thousand Islands by Louis Arundel

had yet entered
No doubt of his return had yet entered his mind.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing

Have you ever
'T won't be inconveniencing you, because I know that there's precious few pickings to be got out of these Central India States—even though you pretend to be correspondent of the 'Backwoodsman.'” “Have you ever tried that trick?”
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

how your efforts
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the Foundation information page at www.gutenberg.org Section 3.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

heer yore eyelids
It will be as black as pitch, an' you kin heer yore eyelids creak after I shet the front door, but I 'll be back—ef
— from Abner Daniel: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Have you ever
Have you ever thought of that?
— from Carnac's Folly, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Have you everything
Have you everything?”
— from Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills by George Manville Fenn


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