| 1. | In trance she dies, and in trance she is UnDead, too. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple o. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | In the trance of three days ago the Count sent her his spirit to read her mind. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Whilst she has been in the trance hitherto she has confined herself to the simplest of facts. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | And all that haunts me is a fear lest in some trance or dream he may have used my knowledge for his ends.. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 7. | He replied, "We have the best proof of that, your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning.. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | You do not know that, friend John, but you shall know it later, and in trance could he best come to take more blood. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fingers. - from Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm |
| 10. | For an instant, the tranced boat's crew stood still then turned. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 11. | The tranced ship indolently rolls the drowsy trade winds blow everything resolves you into languor. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 12. | Ah, God what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 13. | They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 14. | En todos estos trances andaba yo al remo, sin esperanza de libertad alguna a lo menos, no esperaba tenerla por rescate, porque tena determinado de no escribir las nuevas de mi desgracia a mi padre. - from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |