| 1. | Hide or fin or scale or feather-. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 2. | I can't scale the ramparts on this side. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | His mounted scale aloft nor more but fle. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | Our knowledge, and the scale of Nature se. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 5. | Mans nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 6. | and this at once turned the scale in his favour. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 7. | Between thee and me, the scale hangs fairly balanced. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 8. | I shall try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 10. | She scaled just eleven stone nine. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 11. | Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 13. | And in a moment scales the lofty skie. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 14. | Whose imitated scales against the skie. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 15. | By certain scales i' th' pyramid they kno. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | Except scales up and down, girls learning. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 17. | The soft scales of the white bark rubbed off the phosphorus, and the light went out. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 18. | The sire of gods his golden scales suspends. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |