| 1. | Complete in body and dilate in spirit. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | Do me the favour to dilate at ful. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Another method of throwing the eyes out of focus and enabling one to judge of large relationships, is to dilate them widely. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 7. | Valentine, tell him if you love Maximilian." The count felt his heart dilate and throb he opened his arms, and Haidee, uttering a cry, sprang into them. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | -Suspended -dijo el mozo-, oh seores, la ejecucin de mi muerte, que no se perder mucho en que se dilate vuestra venganza en tanto que yo os cuente mi vida. - from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| 9. | The eyes of all animals have their pupils adapted to dilate and diminish of their own accord in proportion to the greater or less light of the sun or other luminary. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 10. | Collecting all his might dilated stood. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | Dimm erst, dilated Spirits, ampler Heart. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 12. | With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd you. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 13. | Of these dilated articles allow. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | ASIDE Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 15. | His voice and hand quivered his large nostrils dilated his eye blazed still I dared to speak. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 16. | This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 17. | All their meager breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily uphill. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 18. | Milady listened with an attention that dilated her inflamed eyes. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |