| 1. | Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 2. | For them he has no use I retain them.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | Above the rest still to retain they al. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | there were only three cases of which I retain any record. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 6. | I will retain my post of mistress till you get a substitute.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | I wish you to retain your post.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain he. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 9. | Until it sets tonight, that monster must retain whatever form he now has. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 10. | That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age i. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | "It ought to be so it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 12. | Let us assume that she retains her power. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 13. | The cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 15. | A wife who will leave the dinner dishes in the kitchen sink occasionally and run away with him for a "lark" on a moment's notice is the kind that retains the love of her florid husband. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 16. | With all its magnificence, it still retains the simplicity of the hut from which it was evolved. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 17. | How yet the regal aspect he retains Jason is he, whose skill and prowess won The ram from Colchos. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 18. | And again, if he is forgetful and retains nothing of what he learns, will he not be an empty vesse. - from The Republic by Plato |