| 1. | Will 'a swagger himself out on's own eye. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Drunk and speak parrot and squabble swagger swea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | She's going to sing at a swagger affair in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on the twenty-fifth. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof from swagger and from affected airs. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | He knew what makes a soldier, and judging by the appearance and the talk of those persons, by the swagger with which they had recourse to the bottle on the journey, he considered them poor soldiers. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 8. | What a hero Tom was become, now He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 9. | He moved with a restrained swagger which would have been ridiculous had he not been so good-looking and had his handsome face not worn such an expression of good-humored complacency and gaiety. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |