| 1. | She filled up the hiatus his silence left by a reply of her own. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | to the great hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning unti. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour's length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a fontis, in the special tongue. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |