| 1. | Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | As manhood shall compound push home. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Only compound me with forgotten dus. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Yea, this solidity and compound mass. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | He whiffed the compound of scents away, as he put down his smoked-out pipe. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Was of more danger, did compound for he. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | For compound sweet forgoing simple savour. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | No fee could compound for such a calamity. - from Beowulf by |
| 9. | Till you compound whose right is worthiest. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | With eager compounds we our palate urge. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | Of these thy compounds on such creatures a. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | To new-found methods, and to compounds strang. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | Some of them struck me as singularly odd compounds of ardour and flatness commencing in strong feeling, and concluding in the affected, wordy style that a schoolboy might use to a fancied, incorporeal sweetheart. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 15. | And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years and any other person may prosecute. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |