| 1. | 'What's that, then' I retorted, showing a decided purple witness to refute her. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | Our ears refute the censure of our eyes.. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | Wickham, I can only refute it by laying before you the whole of his connection with my family. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 4. | Phaethon, full of resentment, and eager to be able to refute the calumny, hastened to his mother Clymene, and besought her to tell him whether Helios was really his father. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 5. | It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 6. | I may be in earnest or not, but what is that to you--to refute the argument is your business. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | What the populace once learned to believe without reasons, who could-- refute it to them by means of reason. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | To refute him someone would have to prove to him that there is no devil, or another peasant would have to explain to him that it is not the devil but a German, who moves the locomotive. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | Come, if so you will, count, and continue this conversation at my house, any day you may be willing to see an adversary capable of understanding and anxious to refute you, and I will show you my father, M. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | They savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists, views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished sermons. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 11. | The bulldog of Aquin, with whom no word shall be impossible, refutes him. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 12. | In the brief existence of Ellison I fancy that I have seen refuted the dogma, that in man's very nature lies some hidden principle, the antagonist of bliss. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 13. | Why Atheism nowadays "The father" in God is thoroughly refuted equally so "the judge," "the rewarder." Also his "free will" he does not hear--and even if he did, he would not know how to help. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 14. | Footnote The view here refuted by Leonardo was maintained among others by Bramantino, Leonardo's Milanese contemporary. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 15. | He probably would have refuted Plato without reading him, in the same fashion in which he supposed himself to have refuted Bishop Berkeley's theory of the non-existence of matter. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 16. | Here and there in the manuscripts mention is made of an anonymous "adversary"_ avversario _whose views are opposed and refuted by Leonardo, but there is no ground for supposing that Marc Antonio della Torre should have been this "adversary".. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |