| 1. | Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 3. | And that pretty girl-widow, I should like to know her history whether she be a native of the country, or, as is more probable, an exotic that the surly _indigenae_ will not recognise for kin.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 4. | He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 5. | It is this dual character, this combination of native and foreign, of innate and exotic elements, which accounts for the wealth of our English language and literature. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 6. | Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | Another question is, Which of existing states is suited to her Not one of them at present she is like some exotic seed which degenerates in a strange soil only in her proper state will she be shown to be of heavenly growth. - from The Republic by Plato |