| 1. | The great metropolis and see of Rome. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | The journey from our town to the metropolis was a journey of about five hours. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | In his best work--and his tales of the great metropolis are his best--he is unique. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Every metropolis has its staff of officials. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is the headquarters of wretchedness. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is something very pressing which they have to communicate. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | There are journeymen shoemakers in London who earn forty pounds a-year, and there is scarce an industrious workman of any kind in that metropolis who does not earn more than twenty. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | The epicentre appears to have been that part of the metropolis which constitutes the Inn's Quay ward and parish of Saint Michan covering a surface of fortyone acres, two roods and one square pole or perch. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |