| 1. | With meditation on the happie end. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | The wanderings as in dreams--the meditation of old times resume. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | As meditation or the thoughts of love. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | In the former, the torture of meditation was excessive--in the latter, supreme. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | I was falling into meditation on my guardian's greatness, when Wemmick remarked-. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | Let us eat with meditation let us make haste slowly. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | O how I love thy law it is my meditation all the day. - from The King James Bible |
| 9. | This spectacle of another's suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | Tuppence's meditations went off on another tack. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | His meditations were of the most complex and diverse character. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 12. | Her meditations were interrupted by Julius, who adjured her to "get right in.. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 13. | People respect the meditations of the happy pair. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | Elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts and meditations which had at length closed her eyes. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 15. | Were there obverse meditations of involution increasingly less vas. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 16. | I might have been too reserved, and should have patronized her more though I did not use that precise word in my meditations with my confidence. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 17. | Further meditations induced in him the feeling that it would be extremely pleasant to bring something down with a whack on Conrad's egg-shaped head. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 18. | But this evening, instead of his usual thoughts and meditations upon official details, his thoughts were absorbed by his wife and something disagreeable connected with her. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |