| 1. | I could have spat upon their hats. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 2. | He returned to his pipe and finally spat rudely into the grate. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | "If all these people came in a body and spat at me, what would you do, Jane. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | I spat out, and affirmed it tasted detestably--I would not take it on any account. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 5. | He took a mouthful, drew it up, saturated his palate with it and then spat it forth into the grate. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 6. | Henchy snuffled vigorously and spat so copiously that he nearly put out the fire, which uttered a hissing protest. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 7. | "Is it like him" I asked, recoiling from the brute, as Wemmick spat upon his eyebrow and gave it a rub with his sleeve. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | Big iron upperworks rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected and spat a smoking blast shot with fire. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 9. | "But there was more than this the order about the shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 10. | It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something, and I was just brooding on life in general when I became aware of the dickens of a spate in progress down below. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 11. | I managed to make out the road by means of occasional ruins of its villas and fences and lamps, and so presently I got out of this spate and made my way to the hill going up towards Roehampton and came out on Putney Common. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |