“How could you deceive me so, Mr. Thorpe?
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

'You distract me, Signor; suffer me to plead my own cause; you have already proved insufficient to it.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

'Seven years dead,' mused Scrooge.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

‘I feel just as you do, Mole; simply dead tired, though not body tired.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

But though there were many and fine, both young and old, yet I could not discern one handsome face there; which was very strange, nor did I find the lady that young Dawes married so pretty as I took her for, I having here an opportunity of looking much upon her very near.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He met me in the entry, bow'd:—"How do you do, Miss Sally?"
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

“How do you do, Mrs. Snow?
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

‘Do not agitate yourself, I entreat you, dearest madam,’ said Mr. Tupman soothingly.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The discreet Mr. Lorry said, in a sample tone of the voice he would recommend under the circumstances, “How do you do, Mr. Stryver?
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

He imposed penance, and in part it was to be performed at Silver Cross, [Pg 87] “—returning there as you do, my son, this week.”
— from Silver Cross by Mary Johnston

“You desire my sword, monsieur?” he inquired.
— from Bardelys the Magnificent Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini

“I know that as well as you do, madam! ” said the constable; “but I make it a principle to do nothing without a warrant: here’s my warrant.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

“That was a good turn you did me,” said he.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

“You defied me,” said the Parisian.
— from The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac