After that event, he fancied in his sleep that he was steering a ship, and that the rudder was forced from him: that he was dragged by his wife Octavia into a prodigiously dark place; and was at one time covered over with a vast swarm of winged ants, and at another, surrounded by the national images which were set up near Pompey’s theatre, and hindered from advancing farther; that a Spanish jennet he was fond of, had his hinder parts so changed, as to resemble those of an ape; and having his head only left unaltered, neighed very harmoniously.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Then the good Pantagruel, thinking he had fainted, commanded them to provide him some vinegar; but Panurge knew well that there was some good prey in hands, and forthwith showed unto noble Pantagruel how he was bearing upon his back a fair roebuck, and all his girdle bordered with hares.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"Not so unjustly neither, perhaps," says Slipslop; "for the clergy are men, as well as other folks."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Ug mapildi ang Libiral punggítun siya sa ubus nga pwistu, He’s marked for demotion to a low position if the Liberal Party loses.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[2333] At Nancy in Lorraine, when Claudia Valesia, Henry the Second French king's sister, and the duke's wife deceased, the temples for forty days were all shut up, no prayers nor masses, but in that room where she was.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He that will freely speak and write, must be for ever no subject, under no prince or law, but lay out the matter truly as it is, not caring what any can, will, like or dislike.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

80 Ne noster quidem Gratidianus officio viri boni functus est tum, cum praetor esset collegiumque praetorium tribuni plebi adhibuissent, ut res nummaria de communi sententia constitueretur; iactabatur enim temporibus illis nummus sic, ut nemo posset scire, quid haberet.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

See a stick of wood on his head, pile it there and see it roll off, don't be afraid to make strong, unusual Name Pictures.
— from Miller's Mind training for children Book 2 (of 3) A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses by William Emer Miller

25 Help me now, O Lord: O Lord, send us now prosperity.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

Then would the tide of love and passion, so long repressed, roll back in its old channel, and he would leave no stone unturned, no path unexplored, whereby to trace my fate.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

“A number of huge albatrosses had been following the vessel, sweeping round and round her, now soaring upwards, now plunging down into the waters to pick up anything which had fallen overboard.
— from Kidnapping in the Pacific; Or, The Adventures of Boas Ringdon A long four-part Yarn by William Henry Giles Kingston

Savonarola usurped no prerogatives.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

This is frequently the consequence of following the track of imagination with implicit compliance, as the Poet without being sensible of his mistake runs into one digression after another, until his work is made up of incoherent ideas; in which, as Horace expresseth it, velut ægri somnia vanæ Finguntur species, ut nec pes, nec caput uni Reddatur formæ.
— from An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by John Ogilvie