| 1. | She indeed gained the resignation she desired. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 2. | He lay an image of sadness and resignation awaiting his death. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | The resignation of thy state and crow. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Handing in one's resignation is honorable. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | The kind of submission or resignation that he showed was that of a man who was tired out. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to Go. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | His face wore a calm look of piety and resignation to the will of God. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a gesture. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |