| 1. | Vain hopes, vain aimes, inordinate desire. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Could such inordinate and low desires. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | presently a beast O strange Every inordinate cup is unblest. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 5. | He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatr. - from The King James Bible |