| 1. | the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | "No matter," said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag's huge right ear. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 3. | A fringe of serpents hissing guards the gol. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked nervously at the fringe of her jacket. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | Her jacket was black, with black beads sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | The Boscombe Pool is thickly wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the edge. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | Beyond was a fringe of excitement, and farther than that fringe the inflammation had not crept as yet. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 8. | What about that, Simon he asked over the fringe of his newspaper. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | Bloom bent leopold ear, turning a fringe of doyley down under the vase. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | That to the fringed Bank with Myrtle crownd. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | His eyelids drooped till the long fringed lashes almost touched his cheek. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | Her flushed face, fringed with soft curling hair under her night cap, was radiant with joy and courage. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 14. | short doublet A hat upon his head with fringes blake. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 15. | For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 16. | On one of them, which was a fringed scarf for a dress of ceremony, I saw the armorial bearings of a Noble, and the letter E. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 17. | There was a low jingle, a glint of yellow metal, a sway of fringed draperies, and she stopped as if her heart had failed her. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 18. | Then he jumped like a cat, for he saw huge things nosing about in the shoal water and browsing on the heavy fringes of the weeds. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |