You have been drinking rum; you have had a stroke, precisely as I told you; and I have just, very much against my own will, dragged you headforemost out of the grave.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

But what do you think, Mr. Noggs,’ said the miniature painter, brightening up and clapping her hands, ‘of that very same brother coming up to London at last, and never resting till he found me out; what do you think of his coming here and sitting down in that very chair, and crying like a child because he was so glad to see me—what do you think of his insisting on taking me down all the way into the country to his own house (quite a sumptuous place, Mr. Noggs, with a large garden and I don’t know how many fields, and a man in livery waiting at table, and cows and horses and pigs and I don’t know what besides), and making me stay a whole month, and pressing me to stop there all my life—yes, all my life—and so did his wife, and so did the children—and there were four of them, and one, the eldest girl of all, they—they had named her after me eight good years before, they had indeed.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

As a friend I pitched into him, asking him why he drank too much, why he lived beyond his means and got into debt, why he did nothing and read nothing, why he had so little culture and so little knowledge; and in answer to all my questions he used to smile bitterly, sigh, and say: ‘I am a failure, a superfluous man’; or: ‘What do you expect, my dear fellow, from us, the debris of the serf-owning class?’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If anyone happens to be coming up behind them, man or woman, do you imagine that they will put themselves half an inch out of their way?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

'You call me old witch, do ye, you deceiver!' says she, 'when ye ought to ha' been calling me mother-law these last five months!'
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

"Miss Oliver, what do you think about it?"
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!” “More often!” “Hey?” “More often!” “What do you say?” “I say more often.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“Well,” said Mrs Alleyne anxiously, as she advanced to meet Oldroyd, “what do you think?”
— from The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn

Immediately Mr. Tommy Thompson said, "Mrs. Oswald, what do you plan to do now?"
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Kumbha said:—If thou rely on thy material body as a real existence, then tell me, on what does your knowledge depend, when your soul is separated from the body.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

Mr. Orton, what do you wish me to do?"
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.