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

The people had their walking clothing and weapons, but their other clothes and effects they packed upon such horses as they could get.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But Báli, by her prayers unmoved, Spurned her advice, and thus reproved: “How may this insult, scathe, and scorn By me, dear love, be tamely born?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The servant was puzzled until she heard a faint mew from beneath her feet.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

Fortunately for Berenguela, the marriage was postponed until she had attained her majority; and when that day of partial freedom came, she boldly declared that she would not marry the German prince, that she did not know him and did not love him, and that nothing could force her to such a bargain of herself.
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

Some day we put up signboard, ‘Hanson and Ralston, General Blacksmiths.’
— from The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson

How much more gracious was the statement of another great authority on Spain—Sir William Stirling-Maxwell—who said that “so great a literary achievement had never before been performed under so humble a title.”
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

I'll klassify the paragrafs under seprit headins, arter the stile of those Emblems of Trooth and Poority, the Washinton correspongdents!
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward

Miss Miller, laughing, knew Zan would give her no peace until she had accomplished her purpose—in this particular case, the conclusion of the legend.
— from The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Ah, if the law-makers had only known there were plenty of doctors in the city glad of a chance to vaccinate people for a dollar or two, they would never have put the price up so high against a poor friendless Irish, or Italian, or Chinese pauper fleeing to the good land to escape hunger and hard times.
— from Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again by Mark Twain

But to effect this is not the work of dispersed cruisers picking up ships here and there, as birds pick up crumbs, but of vessels massed into powerful fleets, holding the sea, or at the least making the highways too dangerous for use.
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan