| 1. | The whole business is in such an anomalous position with us. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | Edward Stapleton, had died, apparently of typhus fever, accompanied with some anomalous symptoms which had excited the curiosity of his medical attendants. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | He ought to have personated Othello, but was obliged to excuse himself from raving for "the handkerchief the handkerchief" on the rather anomalous plea of a bad cold. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |