| 1. | But all the time he was uncomfortable and angry, he could not have said why--whether because he could not get his epigram just right, or from some other reason. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | of the dull epigrams ascribed to Homer for, as Mr. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | Bilibin saved up his epigrams to produce them in Countess Bezukhova's presence. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Footnote These three epigrams on the portrait of Lucrezia Crivelli, a picture by Leonardo which must have been lost at a very early date, seem to have been dedicated to Leonardo by the poet. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |