| 1. | With eyes retrospective towards me. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Turn from lands retrospective recording proofs of the past. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | And the retrospective arrangement. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | When you look back on it all now in a kind of retrospective arrangement. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | Bumble put down his hat unbuttoned his coat folded his arms inclined his head in a retrospective manner and, after a few moments' reflection, commenced his story. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | Looking back now in a retrospective kind of arrangement all seemed a kind of dream. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |