| 1. | -Y quin le mat -pregunt don Quijote. - from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| 2. | And he laid his head down on the mat again. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | The floor was bare, too, except for a round braided mat in the middle such as Anne had never seen before. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | Frank Churchill was so extremely--and there was a mat to step upon--I shall never forget his extreme politeness.--Oh Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 5. | "'Lakeman--Buffalo Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo' said Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | A checquered mat covered the floor, and all the furniture was encased in striped calico covers, and the lamps, mirrors, etc. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 7. | The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politel. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 8. | "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the snow from his shoes. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | How very easily alarmed you are" he answered, removing his cloak and hanging it up against the door, towards which he again coolly pushed the mat which his entrance had deranged. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | God, forgive me, but the mate wa. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 11. | First mate angry, said it was folly. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 12. | Second mate volunteered to steer an. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 13. | But my mate no more, no more with m. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 14. | "Went as mate in a fishing-schooner.. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 15. | Now, is my mate Bill in this here house. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 16. | 'He's a bird of bad omen no mate for you. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 17. | doctor Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate Joh. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 18. | I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
