“What are you doing here?”
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

And truly Moses gave them all these precepts, being such as were observed during his own lifetime; but though he lived now in the wilderness, yet did he make provision how they might observe the same laws when they should have taken the land of Canaan.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

ye dumb hearts.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

“Go you, Duncan,” he said; “go with this marquess, as, indeed, marquess he should be; go to his marquee and arrange it all.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

And now he privately attacked those Geshurites and Amalekites that were neighbors to the Philistines, and laid waste their country, and took much prey of their beasts and camels, and then returned home; but David abstained from the men, as fearing they should discover him to king Achish; yet did he send part of the prey to him as a free gift.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

"You defend him through thick and thin, don't you?
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Arrived in Hamburg, in the year 1703, Handel soon made the acquaintance of Mattheson, an intelligent and industrious young musician, who was competent to appreciate the genius of Handel, and faithfully to record the progress of the promising youth during his sojourn in Hamburg, which lasted about three years.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) by Carl Engel

I would be ashamed to tell you, Dorothy, how my horn has been exalted in your father's absence.
— from Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

And as he waxed in years the youth destroyed his creations, which already seemed to him a vile defamation of his ever-present dreams.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Well, what are you doing here so early?
— from An Amateur Fireman by James Otis

"What are you doing here?" he said, when he was in their midst.
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

"What in the name of fortune are you doing here?"
— from North, South and Over the Sea by M. E. Francis

Mr. W. Stainer, the Registrar of St. Olave District.—In what parts of your district has the number of deaths registered in the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842 been the greatest, in proportion to the population?—“In the densely populated courts and alleys where there are open drains and sewers, and the inhabitants are living in dirt, stench, and a state of wretchedness to be conceived only by those who have witnessed it.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

No matter what you may say in order to palliate what you have done, you cannot have the only real justification, a true and genuine love for your child; if you did, how could you entertain the thought that I would be glad to get rid of her?
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

'You look over the plain and do not see God, and for that you doubt Him? Miserable fool!'
— from Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham