But Ole, he was glad to get down out of the sun and chaff—it gets down your neck and sticks to you something awful when it’s hot like that.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

‘And why do you not add,’ said the prince, scornfully, ‘that the men who have been ready to assume arms in my behalf, will atone for their treason to the Elector, by delivering me up to the fate for which so many proclamations have destined me?
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

“Go back,” he said, “and tell that dog you name a sultan, that low as he is, the humble-born son of Ayoub, I, Al-je-bal, do him an honour that he does not observe.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Did you not a short time since, in this very room, concoct a vile plot to murder me at the dread hour of midnight?
— from The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. (George Melville) Baker

Sir Officer, you leave me my manuscript, do you not?” added she, turning to the officer, who wiped his eyes, while the porter remained sobbing in his place.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 1849 by Various

"Did you notice," asked Stedman that night, as they sat on the veranda of the consul's house, in the moonlight, "how the people bowed to us as we passed?"
— from Cinderella, and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis

What facilities do you need?" "A standard target range will do fine for the blaster function.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

And do you not also see that he would obtain for himself equal, if not greater advantages.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various

" "Did you notice," asked Stedman, that night, as they sat on the veranda of the consul's house, in the moonlight, "how the people bowed to us as we passed?"
— from The Reporter Who Made Himself King by Richard Harding Davis