| 1. | Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | He flourished in a perennial maturity, an immortal middle-age. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | But roses only bloom in summer whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly toward the mystic and the transcendental, re-acted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 8. | Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial bloom and fluttering with rags. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 9. | A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
