"Where have you stolen that pretty dog?" they asked; and they took it away from him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“I don’t know why there aren’t laws against such base, dishonorable people.” “Ah, I can’t bear to hear you!” said the prince gloomily, getting up from his low chair, and seeming anxious to get away, yet stopping in the doorway.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Of this report Miss Sullivan wrote in a letter dated October 30, 1887: "Have you seen the paper I wrote for the 'report'?
— 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

A veritable witness have you hitherto been, Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters, ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and cheeseries in his bowels.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Had this been the universal strain, had you sought to persuade us of this from our youth upwards, we should not have been on the watch to keep one another from doing wrong, but every one would have been his own watchman, because afraid, if he did wrong, of harbouring in himself the greatest of evils.
— from The Republic by Plato

You were at the funeral, Mr. Bruff; you saw how everybody loved her; you saw the poor helpless people crying at her grave over the loss of their best friend.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

At first the King would not allow him to go either, but at last he yielded, so the prince set out on the same road that his brother had taken, and he too met the dwarf, who stopped him to ask, whither he was going in such haste?
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Now looky here; you stop that putting on frills.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Then he made order that the scouts should go forth from the camp; and while he yet spake the procession of priests in their white robes passed like ghosts through the huts on their way to the temple.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

‘Hey, you!’ shouted the policeman, now standing at the bottom of the steps.
— from Minute Mysteries [Detectograms] by H. A. (Harold Austin) Ripley

"'Have you seen the park yet, M. Louet?' asked the captain.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

‘Have you seen the poor fellow who has been just brought into camp upon a cot, Dalton?’ said an officer of the staff, who lounged into Philip’s tent, about noon, some days after the above.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

"It's dreadful how you seem to pick up every bit of dirt, Christian," she said; "your back's always dusty.
— from The Red Room by August Strindberg

I seek not to know what brings you here this night, but tell me now have you seen that proud priest who has slain my son?" "I have not seen him," cried Onawa fiercely; but she was cold to the heart beneath the gaze of those colder eyes.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena