| 1. | Reflected, may with matter sere foment. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Grown sere and tedious yea, my gravity. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | "Well, if a man can stride four and a-half feet without the smallest effort, he can't be quite in the sere and yellow. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | lungs are tickle o' th' sere and the lady shall say her min. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Then, almost before anybody realized it, spring had come out in Avonlea the Mayflowers were peeping pinkly out on the sere barrens where snow-wreaths lingered and the "mist of green" was on the woods and in the valleys. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |