| 1. | "It is more than I engage for, I assure you.. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 2. | "Go to the Carnatic, and engage three cabins.. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 3. | I do not by any means engage for its being returned. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 4. | "Yes, and I hope to engage you to be serious likewise.. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 5. | he would engage to keep them out of trouble with the handspike. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 7. | But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | --I'll engage he did, Mr Dedalus said. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | It was only necessary to mention any favourite amusement to engage her to talk. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 10. | Darcy is engaged to my daughter. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 11. | Ernest Worthing is engaged to me. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | He was engaged in wondering how Mr. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 13. | C., had been engaged to defend him. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 14. | I said he was engaged to be married. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 15. | They were all engaged for the evening.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 16. | "Dorian engaged to be married" he cried. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 17. | "We have been engaged these four years.. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 18. | He was well, but so much engaged with Mr. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |