'What's the matter, Pa?' '—of a splendid female,' he resumed more slowly, 'putting up with such accommodation as the present!—Is that a new dress you have on, my dear?' 'No, Pa, an old one.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Now here's something else: You noticed that I said I was going to put this project through tomorrow, and no doubt you wondered why I said tomorrow.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I don't mean government money, every one steals that, and no doubt you do, too....”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's near ten, and nothing done yet.'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Just to punish myself I am going to leave them on my office table all night; do you suppose I'll be wondering all the time if somebody is crawling in at a window and taking them?"
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory

"I'll try and not disgrace you," volunteered the Cuckoo.
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

Didn't you, yourself, achora, make us send them such little assistance as we could spare?—ay, even to sharin' I may say, our last morsel wid them; an' now, darlin', you know we haven't it.”
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

You must all show forth the utmost consideration to these two ambassadors, neither do ye fall short in serving them in whatever manner possible.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

If you are set to do this absurd thing, and no doubt you are, for you are as stubborn as—as—a Scotch Irishman, and I know of no other breed of animal worthy to be compared with him for that virtue, march yourself over to the general prison, find a cell, lock yourself in, and throw the key out of the window."
— from Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

In the ryuer of Elycon the welle Haue now pyte of that I shal you telle And not desdayne ye of your benygnyte
— from The Temple of Glass by John Lydgate

He knows they are not dirty; yet to get rid of the teasing idea he washes them.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

His temper, as no doubt you are aware, was not always under strict control.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty