| 1. | Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | I was so much better that I thought I could dispense with one. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | Let us dispense with useless words. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | We dispense with your saying grace.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 7. | We must of force dispense with this decre. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | How shall we then dispense with that contract. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | And, pleased, dispense the flowing bowls aroun. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 10. | Nature dispenses with the deed so fa. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | He reefed all sail, the pole-masts were dispensed with all hands went forward to the bows. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 12. | Nor were the oarsmen quite idle, though their wonted duty was now altogether dispensed with. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 13. | Thus they reached the town, where Buller bought a hat, Podington dispensed with his bundle, and arrangements were made to bring back the boat. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 14. | I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 15. | Weston, unasked, promised to get Frank over to join them, if possible a proof of approbation and gratitude which could have been dispensed with.--Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 16. | Modern education includes morality therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 17. | "They are men who make the blots," said Candide, "and they cannot be dispensed with.. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 18. | And the power which the eye possesses is a sort of effluence which is dispensed from the su. - from The Republic by Plato |
