I was so much dismayed by these words, and particularly by the repetition of the last unknown one, which was a kind of rattle in his throat, that I could make no answer; hereupon the old man, still holding me by the hair, repeated: ‘Oh, what do you want?
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"You know those women, and they know you," continued Rosseau, "or, why do you shrink from showing yourself?"
— from Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician by Alexandre Dumas

'To be sure it is, ye spalpeen, you,' says Jim, roarin' out; 'what do you want wid me this time a-day?' says he.
— from The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The date of this suppressed paper is indeed of some consequence, as determining the period at which Mr. Champollion made his rediscovery of what Dr. Young had published in 1816; that is, the fact of the essential identity of the two systems of writing.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

Böller and Co. knew that the time for the bill had run out; why did you make our task harder and let yourself be sought for everywhere!"
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall

"Ah, madam," I replied, "of what do you remind me?
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de