| 1. | --Halloa, father" and, after raising this fictitious alarm, darting in again with an undutiful grin. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | "Which is evidently not his real name, but a fictitious one.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | unimportant, and not a few altogether fictitious or of so man. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | In this narrative I have therefore designated myself as William Wilson,--a fictitious title not very dissimilar to the real. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | this fictitious biography, he showed some tact in identifying Home. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | "I put it to you that, anxious to prove an alibi, you conceived the idea of a fictitious and rather incredible appointment, and wrote this note yourself in order to bear out your statement. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | "And I reply to you, sir, that this abuse of power, this exile under a fictitious name, are infamous. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then--all the _combinaisons_ made--they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |