| 1. | From her best prop so farr, and storn so nigh. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Rash as thou art to prop the Trojan throne. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | Or served to ballast, or to prop the fleet. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | Upheaved the piles that prop the solid wal. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | 'Noa' said Joseph, giving a thud with his prop on the floor, and assuming an authoritative air. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | "I should think I did notice them, seeing that I had to prop him up--me and Murcher between us. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 9. | I took that dear hand, held it a moment to my lips, then let it pass round my shoulder being so much lower of stature than he, I served both for his prop and guide. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | The ratifiers and props of every word. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | He shakes the feeble props of human trust. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 12. | Who shakes the feeble props of human trust. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 13. | Two props of virtue for a Christian prince. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | His hundred heads in heaven, and props the clouds. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 15. | The beams which served as props were torn from the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 16. | Make the outside mould of plaster, to save time in drying and the expense in wood and with this plaster enclose the irons props both outside and inside to a thickness of two fingers make terra cotta. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
