| 1. | If you want an instance of the irony of fate, Bertie, get acquainted with this. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 2. | Is it possible that irony is derived from i. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | The prince went up to her, and Kitty detected that disconcerting gleam of irony in his eyes. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health everything absolute belongs to pathology. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | She merely smiled with a pretense of irony when he finished, and made no reply, because she had not heard what he said. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |