| 1. | Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drop. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | I felt sure that he, at least, was plumb straight. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, wel. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | "You don't think--but, say, that's plumb impossible--no one could have got in.. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | "I know these ducal suites--and I want this one plumb empty except for you and me. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | "Well, you see, I'd got a sort of tired feeling that I'd never find Jane--and that it was all plumb foolishness anyway. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 7. | And that's plumb impossible No, by gum, I've got it It was her I saw talking to Whittington at that nursing home in Bournemouth. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | "I had a wild idea of stopping at Holyhead, and not going on to London that day, but I soon saw that that would be plumb foolishness. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 9. | No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |