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

He was happy and satisfied to go on making his living in the advertising place until something happened.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

“Straight to the Junction, by the shortest way,” he answered, pointing up School House Hill with his whip.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

“Oh, come along,” Penny urged, seizing her by the arm.
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Indeed, there are many English words which, though not taken in a positively unfavourable sense, have yet a tendency that way—which require qualifying, if we wish them to be understood favourably.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

After piling up some hemlock boughs for a bed, the boys lay down, and dropped into a heavy sleep.
— from Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock

If any one will take the trouble of digging up the kitchen midden of a villa built within the last ten years, in a previously uninhabited spot, he will probably find fragments of an exquisite porcelain vase which the housemaid broke in dusting the drawing-room chimney-piece.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

All Treaties, Contracts and engagements of the United States of America under the articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, shall have equal validity under this Constitution.
— from The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 by United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

‘Their horse took the occasion of this, and pursued us so hotly that we got no time to rally.
— from Viscount Dundee by Louis A. Barbé

Neither tall nor short, but with a lithe figure, a natural grace and sweet dignity of carriage, the result of sufficient healthy exercise and a pure, untroubled spirit; hands and feet, mouth and nose, not such as a gentleman would particularly notice; and straight brown hair, which shaded the only really beautiful part of Hepsy Ann's face,—her clear, honest, brave blue eyes: eyes from which spoke a soul at peace with itself and with the outward world,—a soul yet full of love and trust, fearing nothing, doubting nothing, believing much good, and inclined to patient endurance of the human weaknesses it met with in daily life, as not perhaps altogether strange to itself.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The garrison, under Sarsfield, made vigorous preparation for a defence, and a party under Sarsfield himself cut off one of William's convoys from Dublin, destroying the siege-train which was being brought for the attack on the city.
— from Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston