| 1. | A singularly appropriate phrase it proved. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | Bumble, halting for an appropriate comparison. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | And your mother has brought on herself a most appropriate punishment. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 5. | It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 6. | Only first exchange that nightcap for some more appropriate covering, or we shall be taken for madmen.. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 8. | Yes, but what do you suggest as an appropriate costume for tha. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| 9. | Sikes could get out a few of the appropriate oaths with which, on similar occasions, he was accustomed to garnish his threats. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 10. | Emma could look perfectly unconscious and innocent, and answer in a manner that appropriated nothing. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 11. | Joe appropriated him, who was a well-to-do cornchandler in the nearest town, and drove his own chaise-cart. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 12. | Its two slopes have been appropriated for the monumental hillock. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 14. | He appropriated the club as a trophy of his victory, and proceeded on his journey without hinderance until he arrived at the Isthmus of Corinth. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 15. | Ultimately the defendants the crew of another ship came up with the whale, struck, killed, seized, and finally appropriated it before the very eyes of the plaintiffs. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 16. | My dress it was an easy matter to copy my gait and general manner were, without difficulty, appropriated in spite of his constitutional defect, even my voice did not escape him. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 17. | So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 18. | While she thus appropriates new rights, aspires to be "master," and inscribes "progress" of woman on her flags and banners, the very opposite realises itself with terrible obviousness WOMAN RETROGRADES. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
