| 1. | Our prison strong, this huge convex of Fire. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Of this round World, whose first convex divide. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | And twice ten bosses the bright convex crown'. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | The starry lights that heaven's high convex crown'. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer convex mould of it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | A very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken causeways. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | Supposing there is a convex curve on the one side, you will often have a concave form on the other. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 9. | They keep a Whale's Rib of an incredible length for a Miracle, which lying upon the Ground with its convex part uppermost, makes an Arch, the Head of which cannot be reached by a Man upon a Camel's Back. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |