| 1. | from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | Then came the thirde company, And gan up to the dais to hie. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 4. | -Es verdad, caballero, que os dais por vencido, y que, instigado de vuestra temerosa conciencia, os queris casar con esta doncell. - from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |