| 1. | "Madam, I should like some tea," was the sole rejoinder she got. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | Kutuzov made no rejoinder or remark. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | "Sing out for him" was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | Making rejoinder "These words thou hast uttere. - from Beowulf by |
| 5. | And all the infant paupers might have chorussed the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | I don't like him," she added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | He looked compassionately at Balashev, and as soon as the latter tried to make some rejoinder hastily interrupted him. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | "You shall not get off in that way," rejoined Stryver, shouldering the rejoinder at him "no, Sydney, it's my duty to tell you--and I tell you to your face to do you good--that you are a devilish ill-conditioned fellow in that sort of society. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | At the risk of her own, was the telling rejoinder of his interlocutor, none the less effective for the moderate and measured tone in which it was delivered. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |