| 1. | Out of the bulk, the morbid and the shallow. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | "No, no, you're getting morbid on the subject.. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | She felt a morbid desire to ascertain the point. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | For some weeks, indeed, I busied myself in earnest inquiry, or was wrapped in a cloud of morbid speculation. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | She might as well have said to the fire, "don't burn" but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a pre. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 8. | Dimmesdale, conscious that the poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart's entire substance, attributed all his presentiments to no other cause. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | This monomania, if I must so term it, consisted in a morbid irritability of those properties of the mind in metaphysical science termed the _attentive_. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |