Did you ever in your life know an ill painter Desire to have his dwelling next door to the shop Of an excellent picture-maker?
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

As soon as the coach had left the inn, the women all together fell to the character of Miss Grave-airs; whom one of them declared she had suspected to be some low creature, from the beginning of their journey, and another affirmed she had not even the looks of a gentlewoman: a third warranted she was no better than she should be; and, turning to the lady who had related the story in the coach, said, "Did you ever hear, madam, anything so prudish as her remarks?
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

"How on earth, Badger," he said at last, "did you ever find time and strength to do all this?
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

And do you expect me to turn my back on 35 per cent when all the rest are pocketing what they can, like sensible men?
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

By what criterion do ye eat, d’ye think, If this is prized for sweetness, that for stink?”
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Did you ever hear him, Tom?”
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Did you ever see a "Jim-Crow" waiting-room?
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

‘Did you ever see anything in Mr. Pickwick’s manner and conduct towards the opposite sex, to induce you to believe that he ever contemplated matrimony of late years, in any case?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

And it does you every credit, Temple.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

How do you explain the difference between the descriptions of the effect of solitude in the accounts given by Rousseau and by Hudson?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Do you, Etta?" "I used to, but I tried not to—it was too bitter.
— from The Third Miss Symons by F. M. (Flora Macdonald) Mayor

Did you ever see such a fit as that boot?
— from Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

6d., instead of the much larger sum which you mention. Did you ever see Mr Gibson's farm of Woolmet?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 by Various

Do you expect me to stand on this landing all day?
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The woman stared ahead darkly: "But why?" she asked; "what have I, poor mother, done?" "Yes, Elke, that I have asked, too, of Him who alone can know; but you know, too, that the Almighty gives men no answer--perhaps because we would not grasp it."
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller

How many fingers do you expect it to leave you with, Tommy?"
— from Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various

"Did you ever know of a case in point?"
— from The Yellow Face by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

“Did you ever know me fail you, Harry?”
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

Reader, did you ever try to work your way through the hard loaf of the peasant's fare?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various