"You with your dainty fingers, and your going to India because you will be one of the somebodies there!
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Nay, how will you do for a husband?
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

You let your imagination shinny on the side of your desires for a few hours, and then you decide.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I will well, said Arthur, for I see your deeds full actual; nevertheless, I might not come at you at that time.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Are you dressed for a masquerade, and is this a time to go masked?
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

I’ll tell you dis, for a warnin’: if you ever does say it ag’in, it’s de las’ time you’ll ever say it to me; I’ll tramp as straight to de Judge as I kin walk, en tell him who you is, en prove it.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

“Yes, dear friend,” Athos replied, “but you said a word the other day that was more than reasonable--it was noble and generous.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And the sharpe yron did for anger eat, When his hot ryder spurd his chauffed side;
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

What do you do for a living?
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

D'ye hear me?' 'The short and the long of what you mean,' said Nancy: speaking very emphatically, and slightly frowning at Oliver as if to bespeak his serious attention to her words: 'is, that if you're crossed by him in this job you have on hand, you'll prevent his ever telling tales afterwards, by shooting him through the head, and will take your chance of swinging for it, as you do for a great many other things in the way of business, every month of your life.'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And what can you do for a couple of homeless waifs like that but give them your help and sympathy?
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall

“Plenty of trout in the creek though the river’s rily and trout won’t rise in rily water I suppose you know there’s some big ones in the creek one took off a leader and fly for me yesterday but I’m goin’ to snatch him out of that hole yet but what I want to know is what do you do for a livin’ people have to rustle in this country or tramp.”
— from With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters by Lewis B. France

But I don't intend to darken your door For a long, long time.
— from Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite by Molière

What Yucca does for a living I am at a loss to know.
— from Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd

"What do you do for a living?"
— from Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

For this reason I have for some time inclined to tell you what my life has been—not to propitiate your opinion, for I set no value on it; but that you may comprehend, when you think of your dear friend and his dear wife, what I mean by hating.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens