Oh, Kit, what have you done?
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Do you know who hears you, sovereign? FACE.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
But I am likewise the knight who helped you to your victory over your enemies.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm
So the knight and the squire were both left in the mire, There for to sing their roundelay; For a yeoman of Kent, with his yearly rent, There never was a widow could say him nay.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
Panghinaútan (ipanghináut) námù ang ímung kadaúgan, We hope you will be victorious.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Lít kaáyu ka, Where have you been?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
'If that is all, you have frightened me already, and may therefore tell me what you know, without hurting your conscience.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
[Pg 138] Old K. What have you perform'd, Sir? Witty.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher
I should like to know what honor you will derive from a law that will be broken every day of your lives.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
H. I did not know: Where have you been?
— from Poems: New and Old by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir
"I kept wondering how you did it.
— from From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes
“Nay, not altogether alone, but with the old Countess, her kinswoman, who hath yielded to her cousin's wishes in this matter.” “And will the King,” said Cunningham, “he being the Duke's feudal sovereign, interfere between the Duke and his ward, over whom Charles hath the same right, which, were he himself dead, the King would have over the heiress of Burgundy?” “The King will be ruled as he is wont, by rules of policy, and you know,” continued Crawford, “that he hath not publicly received these ladies, nor placed them under the protection of his daughters, the Lady of Beaujeu, or the Princess Joan, so, doubtless, he will be guided by circumstances.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott
You can do what you please with me, for you have power over my outward life--and if you lacked it, the King would help you.
— from In the Palace of the King: A Love Story of Old Madrid by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
What he really needed to know was how you sit on the water without sinking, and they said it was quite impossible to explain such an easy thing as that.
— from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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