| 1. | I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 2. | Below this picture was a miniature of William and my tears flowed when I looked upon it. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 3. | She told me, that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | It puts him quite out of heart." Then taking a small miniature from her pocket, she added, "To prevent the possibility of mistake, be so good as to look at this face. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 6. | That on the th day of April , I, Leonardo da Vinci, lent to Vante, miniature painte. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 7. | First we opened the shutters of the window which looked out across a narrow stone flagged yard at the blank face of a stable, pointed to look like the front of a miniature house. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | There was a reasonably good path now, mostly on the edge of the river, with a divergence here and there where a dike came, with a miniature windmill on it and a muddy sluice-gate. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | Fairfax's description secondly, whether it at all resembled the fancy miniature I had painted of her and thirdly--it will out--whether it were such as I should fancy likely to suit Mr. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | And the children seemed to my eyes to be but the miniatures of their parents. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 11. | This room was my late master's favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 12. | Your name happened to come up in conversation, in connection with the miniatures you have lent to the exhibition at the Dudley. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 13. | Whether we read the fun and sentiment of Dickens, the social miniatures of Thackeray, or the psychological studies of George Eliot, we find in almost every case a definite purpose to sweep away error and to reveal the underlying truth of human life. - from English Literature by William J. Long |