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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

After the third potion, he asked him again how he did: “Why, I find myself swollen and puffed up,” said he, “as if I had a dropsy.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

V At last forth comes that far renowmed Queene, With royall pomp and Princely majestie; She is ybrought unto a paled greene, ° 40 And placed under stately canapee, The warlike feates of both those knights to see.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The subsidies which the French Crown was foolish enough to pay him for a perfectly useless service did not suffice for his extravagant expenses.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Were ever a people under such circumstances, that is, a people who were to export raw, and to receive manufactured, and this, not a few luxurious articles, but all articles, even to those of the grossest, most vulgar, and necessary consumption, a people who were in the hands of a general monopolist, were Page 417 ever such a people suspected of a possibility of becoming a just object of revenue?
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

[A] pick up speed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We’ll get the boat out, and paddle up stream.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Whether the opinion which underlays the expression has also been rectified, and why the expression should ever have been used, are questions which are perfectly unimportant: so long as the statement is withdrawn, all is well.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Cecil shook hands pleasantly enough, but Bluebell, not even looking at him, extended a lifeless hand in passing, and, picking up some work, appeared absorbed in counting stitches.
— from Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, G. C., Mrs.

I have heard the sublime melodies of Handel, Hayden, and Mozart, performed by the most skilful musicians ; I have listened with delight and awe to the soul-moving compositions of those masters, as they have been chaunted in the most magnificent churches; but never did I hear such music, and played upon such an instrument, as that sent forth by the great organ in the Cathedral of York.
— from Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown

He obtained his first patent in 267 America in 1835, and established a manufactory for the pistols at Paterson, United States, where he expended £35,000 in attempting to bring the fire-arm to perfection, but with no beneficial result to himself beyond gaining costly experience.
— from Great Facts A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century by Frederick C. (Frederick Collier) Bakewell

Here, it seems, the police were plodding along, apparently on their usual persistent but unavailing search, when suddenly one of the men pulled up, dismounted, and, picking up something, gave a low, sibilant whistle.
— from Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised by Rolf Boldrewood

At this age he was granted one and one-half rolls at a meal, and commenced doing little errands and picking up scattered beans and corn in the Tianquez, which is what the Mexicans called the market-place.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 08, June 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

And then they holp up their father, and so by their common assent promised unto Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon at Whitsuntide after, to come he and his sons, and put them in the king’s grace.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

So when we knew better, my father and mother always had their own old-fashioned light two-horse carriage to themselves, and I had one made with any quantity of front and side pockets for books and picked up stones; and hung very low, with a fixed side-step, which I could get off or on with the horses at the trot; and at any rise or fall of the road, relieve them, and get my own walk, without troubling the driver to think of me.
— from Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

It was afterwards discovered that the fellows, who were all of them belonging to the slaver’s crew, took on shore a very considerable number of doubloons, which form in general the most valuable portion of a prize, unless she has her cargo of slaves on board; the slave-vessel herself and her stores rarely sell for much.
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

That everything asserted by such a people, under such circumstances, is strictly true I should in no wise assert.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement