| 1. | Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | it affords a parallel to 'men' in v. - from Beowulf by |
| 3. | The path was now running along the side of the cliff, parallel to the sea. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | Did lack a parallel yet, for all that. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | This gives a parallel to 'fretan' above. - from Beowulf by |
| 6. | To counsel Cassio to this parallel course. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Thistleton, sir, because his was in some respects a parallel case to the present one. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 8. | that it gives a parallel to 'Getena lede' but t. - from Beowulf by |
| 9. | This gives a parallel to 'les.' 'Grynna' may well be gen. - from Beowulf by |
| 10. | and ravishments he parallels Nessus. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 13. | These he describes in a succession of parallels between the individuals and the States, tracing the origin of either in the State or individual which has preceded them. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 14. | So great uncertainty have some felt on the latter score, that elaborate parallels have been drawn between Chaucer, and Homer -- for whose birthplace several cities contended, and whose descent was traced to the demigods. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 15. | It is worth noticing that for all these domes Leonardo is not satisfied to decorate the exterior merely with ascending ribs or mouldings, but employs also a system of horizontal parallels to complete the architectural system. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |