| 1. | court, and the judge expound the law. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Yet I will not attempt to expound them. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I canno. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | And Levin began carefully, as it were, feeling his ground, to expound his views. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | I was about to expound these theories to Poirot, when his own words distracted me. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | And they could not in three days expound the riddle. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | "Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting," answered the townsman. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 10. | In all that land magician was there none That could expounde what this letter meant. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |