A question asked without expecting an answer, because the answer is already implied, or because what matters is the doubt it exposes.
In Dom Casmurro
Capitu, in spite of those eyes the devil gave her... Have you noticed her eyes? They are like a gypsy's, oblique and dissembling.
"Have you noticed her eyes?" does not expect an answer: José Dias wants Bentinho to agree, and the question hints there is something to notice without saying what.
Chapters XXIII to XXXIV: The Gypsy Eyes and the Eyes of Undertow, José Dias
Your mother made a promise to God to give Him a priest, didn't she? Well then, give Him a priest who is not you. She can very well take in some orphaned lad and have him ordained at her expense, and there you have a priest at the altar, without you...
Chapters XCIII to C: The Substitute and the Bachelor, Escobar
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