How do you, Desdemona? DESDEMONA
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

“Do you persist in your denial?” demanded the president coldly.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Now don't say a word against it, you dear dolorous thing.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

‘Ah! you do well to remind me of the ladies, you dastardly deserter,’ cried he, shaking his formidable fist at his brother-in-law.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

But you were pitiless in getting yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do you understand, you assassin?”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

‘Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife—what’s the answer to that?’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

“What are you drinking, dear grandmamma?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The room was at the back of the house, for greater quiet, and looked out into a deep, grassy yard divided down the center by a hedge of lilacs, and only invaded by birds and children.
— from Mrs. Farrell by William Dean Howells

I'd like to shoot you dead, Doctor."
— from Strange Alliance by Bryce Walton

Why, you do, don’t you, Plain Jane?” demanded Mabel.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on a Yacht by Margaret Love Sanderson

“And how will you do differently now, if you get home?”
— from The Billow and the Rock by Harriet Martineau

“Oh, you did, did you!” cried Humble, not at all humbly.
— from The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford

We halted and went to see what it was, and we found that it consisted of eight screens of coarse yellow mats, with great yellow dragons designed on them.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

You do deserve it richly, And may live to have a Beadle doe it.
— from The Scornful Lady by John Fletcher

“No: men will be gentler, and wimmen nobler; and they will both come nearer bein' angels, though most probable they won't be angels: they won't be any too good then, I hain't a mite afraid of it.” He kinder sithed; and that sithe sort o' brought me down onto my feet agin (as it were), and a sense of my duty: and I spoke out agin,— “Can you, and will you, do Dorlesky's errents?” Wall, he said, “as far as giving Dorlesky her rights was concerned, he felt that natural human instinct was against the change.”
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

“‘Nex’ day you does de same agen, an’ dat time he’s mighty sure to say good mawnin’, ’cause he’ll a-bin tinkin’ an’ studyin’ about dat honey ever since yestiday.
— from Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan