| 1. | There was a man who would unerringly ferret out Tuppence's whereabouts. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Looks with such ferret and such fiery eye. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Master Fer I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Yes--yes--the end is not so difficult if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | "Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |