| 1. | The kennel was stagnant and filthy. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | The stagnant pools were all like amber. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | To break the stagnant tie--thee, thee to free, O soul. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | In spite of its _cafs chantants_ and its omnibuses, Moscow was yet a stagnant bog. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Sumptuous and stagnant exaggeration of murder. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage--a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 7. | There was a touch of stagnant oblivion in that street. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | There started up, from the gate, or from the rushes, or from the ooze which was quite in his stagnant way, Old Orlick. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | This frightful monster had sprung from the slimy and stagnant waters which remained on the surface of the earth after the deluge of Deucalion. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 10. | Sic Venetus stagnante Pado, fusoque Britannus Navigat oceano, sic cum tenet omnia Nilus, Conseritur bibula Memphitis cymbo papyro. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |