| 1. | Thus, like figs, do these doctrines fall for you, my friends imbibe now their juice and their sweet substance It is autumn all around, and clear sky, and afternoon. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2. | I do not willingly enter into arithmetical explanations with an artist like you, who fears to enter my study lest she should imbibe disagreeable or anti-poetic impressions and sensations. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 5. | I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits more harmonious thoughts what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancien. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 7. | It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 8. | She grew to have a dread of children for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chal. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
