| 1. | She does not deign to be clever.... - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | Will your majesty deign to excuse me. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Nor would we deign him burial of his me. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | I fear my Julia would not deign my lines. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Since thou dost deign to woo her little wort. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | "When will your Majesty deign to receive him. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | And all those friends that deign to follow me. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Among whom God will deigne to dwell on Eart. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | Those happie places thou hast deignd a whil. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 12. | do what you And that ye deigne me so much honour. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 13. | "Come, so we shall see all your friends," he went on, "even Madame Stahl, if she deigns to recognize me.. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 14. | "And now," he said, "may I inquire what are the orders with which your majesty deigns to honor me. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 15. | I have myself inflated all too high My proper place is thy estate The Mighty Spirit deigns me no reply, And Nature shuts on me her gate. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 16. | "Sire, the kindness your majesty deigns to evince towards me is a recompense which so far surpasses my utmost ambition that I have nothing more to ask for.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 17. | The court-yard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely, when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |