| 1. | Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 2. | They consider only their own ideas of ingenuity and, in searching for anything hidden, advert only to the modes in which they would have hidden it. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |