| 1. | From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | By it he laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | "How does he expect us to work for him if he won't stump up. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | "Art not thou the leg-maker Look, did not this stump come from thy shop. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | He stumbled over the stump as he came, and moved, as she thought, extraordinarily slowly. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Ye see an old man cut down to the stump leaning on a shivered lance propped up on a lonely foot. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 10. | The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes dee. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Whiles that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hol. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | All he had left was the stumps of four swords one more than Francois I. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 15. | It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that radiant portal. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 16. | Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 17. | _Reuben I Antichrist, wandering jew, a clutching hand open on his spine, stumps forward. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 18. | The slopes of the knoll and all the inside of the stockade had been cleared of timber to build the house, and we could see by the stumps what a fine and lofty grove had been destroyed. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |