| 1. | Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Sikes could get out a few of the appropriate oaths with which, on similar occasions, he was accustomed to garnish his threats. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping or hindering her and the cook learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | He was asking, too, the well-known eccentric enthusiast, Pestsov, a liberal, a great talker, a musician, an historian, and the most delightfully youthful person of fifty, who would be a sauce or garnish for Koznishev and Karenin. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous. - from The King James Bible |