“Obey, Laporte, do you not see I have no time to lose?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

A VOICE (outside): Lay down your arms!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

And then, besides, they save in that other little detail, you know—repudiate their own tickets, and collect a poor little illegitimate extra shilling out of you for that twelve miles, and——” “Well, in any case——” “Wait—there’s more.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

When Mr Inspector put it in that other form, 'to come along with me,' there was a relishing roll in his voice, and his eye beamed with an official lustre. 'Do you propose to take me into custody?' inquired John Rokesmith, very coolly.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“When you promised to marry me, after we had both been weak enough to give way to our love, did you intend to deceive me?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It hath been a great endangering to the health of some plantations, that they have built along the sea and rivers, in marish 374 206 and unwholesome grounds; therefore, though you begin there, to avoid carriage and other like discommodities, yet build still rather upwards from the streams than along.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

"Why, what other life do you want?"
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

GENERAL: I received, day before yesterday, at the hands of Lieutenant Dunn, your letter of December 8d, and last night, at the hands of Colonel Babcock, that of December 6th.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

What has happened?” asked the countess, as though awakening from a sleep to the realities of life; “did you say a misfortune?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Nothing more to be done.—Parr's out of lint, did you know?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Yet ever in the far forlorn, by trails of lone desire; Yet ever in the dawn's white leer of hate; Yet ever by the dripping kill, beside the drowsy fire, There comes the fierce heart-hunger for a mate.
— from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

"What other letters did you have?"
— from Nightfall by Anthony Pryde

It was his own story of love denied, yet enriching a life.
— from The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey

He was not titled, and I am afraid he was not rich, and this last misfortune used to make his attention to me somewhat painful—to him I mean, not to me ; for, of course, as to anything serious, I looked much higher than a poor Secretary of Legation.’ ‘Did you?’ asked Kate, with an air of quiet simplicity.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

I guess we might as well put Mr. Larcher on, Lafferty, do you think?”
— from The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

"You don't expect to find them here on land, do you?" demanded Cutlip.
— from The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets; Or, The Fall of the German Navy by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

"Orright, go on; laugh, dash yer.
— from Action Front by Boyd Cable

“What sort of lodgings do you want, sir?”
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

marched past him by a file of the guard, and then turns to the nearest of the officers— "Lieutenant, did you note the man who ran back from where that cab is standing?"
— from A War-Time Wooing: A Story by Charles King