| 1. | Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heav'n. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | What I contend for is the authenticity of the outline. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3. | Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your live. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Even Achelous might contend in vain. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | As they contend with thee in courtesy. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | "Well, you know what we have to contend against, but we too, are not without strength. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 7. | That death and nature do contend about them. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | When dying clouds contend with growing light. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | And with the southern clouds contend in tears. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Again 'tis just at morning--a heavy haze contends with daybreak. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Grimwig contends that he was right in the main, and, in proof thereof, remarks that Oliver did not come back after all which always calls forth a laugh on his side, and increases his good humour. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 12. | Hence, though he apparently fails of his immediate desire in each of these three orations, the principle for which he contends cannot fail. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 13. | Following the analogy of the other animals, he contends that all natural gifts are scattered about indifferently among both sexes, though there may be a superiority of degree on the part of the men. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 14. | In the first morality it is the eagle which, looking down upon a browsing lamb, contends that "eating lamb is good." In the second, the slave-morality, it is the lamb which, looking up from the sward, bleats dissentingly "Eating lamb is evil.. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |