| 1. | But to think of anything extraneous was an agonizing effort. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | Everyone present, feeling too that something had happened, talked eagerly about extraneous subjects. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | Several extraneous sums, altogether independent of that ordinary revenue, have contributed towards it. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | An extraneous jurisdiction of this kind, besides, is liable to be exercised both ignorantly and capriciously. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 6. | But man himself only is hard to bear The reason thereof is that he carrieth too many extraneous things on his shoulders. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | Secondly, no extraneous word must be introduced into either of the terms in which the contradictory proposition is expressed for example, thirst is of drink, not of warm drink. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 8. | Pierre now recognized in his friend a need with which he was only too familiar, to get excited and to have arguments about extraneous matters in order to stifle thoughts that were too oppressive and too intimate. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | Whoever has attended for any considerable time to the administration of a French university, must have had occasion to remark the effects which naturally result from an arbitrary and extraneous jurisdiction of this kind. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |