| 1. | "Oh, at the asylum Sunday-school. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | The matron of the asylum made them for me. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | The mother was being taken to the state asylum for the insane. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 4. | The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | I had to go to the asylum at Hopeton, because nobody would take me. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 6. | Was the proposal of asylum accepte. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | John Seward, the lunatic asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | _Je n'ai pas le coeur assez_ large to love a whole asylum of horrid little girls. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | A sane person shut up in a lunatic asylum often ends by becoming insane, they say. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 10. | "Yes, of course," said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |