“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We have had a quite different subject to talk of; and I hope she will forgive us both: You especially she must; because you have done nothing but by my orders.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

If I had your eyes, Sir, (said he,) I should count the passengers.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

If, for example, you approach the window in daylight with your eyes shut, lean your forehead against the pane and shut out the light on the sides with your hands, and then open your eyes, you see as little in the room as when you looked into it without performing this ceremony.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Did you ever see me take so much trouble about anything, as about this disappearance of hers?
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

—Tampoco es ello posible excepto en los países más ricos y adelantados, y eso sólo en ciertas zonas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“Do your excellencies still wish for a carriage from now to Sunday morning?” “ Parbleu! ” said Albert, “do you think we are going to run about on foot in the streets of Rome, like lawyers’ clerks?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Young Eck sends her a kiss, a sugar one of course.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

o'er whose early tomb Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid, Lamenting and yet envying such a doom, Falling for France, whose rights he battled to resume.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth," said her uncle, as they drove from the town; "and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the matter.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"I doubt you expect some odious man," said Tonia, as she entered, "or you wouldn't say that."
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Did you ever see an infant sleep so softly?
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

'Did you ever see anything so perfectly idiotic?'
— from On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution by T. T. (Thomas Tendron) Jeans

“You have to sign the report of your examination,” said the judge.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“Tell me, do you ever see visions?”
— from The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones

"Well, did you ever see anything like that!" "Well, I never did!"
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

“Well,” said I, “have you ever seen me before?
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow