| 1. | "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | "It is, nevertheless, conclusive to my mind. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Each single Greek, in this conclusive strife. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | And turning over the beautifully written, wide-margined manuscript, Alexey Alexandrovitch read aloud over again the conclusive passage. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | As to the former notion he confessed his inability to comprehend it and here I agreed with him--for, however conclusive on paper, it becomes altogether unintelligible, and even absurd, amid the thunder of the abyss. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | documents would seem conclusive with regard to printing in , but witnesses were not long in appearing who stated something quite different. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |
| 7. | The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really was. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | "We cannot but think the universal admiration of its unity by the better, the poetic age of Greece, almost conclusive testimony to its original composition. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |