| 1. | 'Well, I must defer to your judgment. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | I will make cities and civilizations defer to me. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | He answered,--'No, I'll defer it this year a little longer.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 4. | To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | No longer then defer the glorious strife. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | I hated the business, I begged leave to defer it no--it should be gone through with now. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Was fain to defer it, friend-mourning warder. - from Beowulf by |
| 8. | Jane, you don't like my narrative you look almost sick--shall I defer the rest to another day. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | "I am writing home, Marianne," said Elinor "had not you better defer your letter for a day or two. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |