| 1. | To wage by force or guile eternal War. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | They think we earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. - from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
| 3. | To wake and wage a danger profitless. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | To wage against the enmity o' th' air. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Of all neglectful, wage a hateful war. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | To wage an instant trial with the King. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | Divide his heart, and wage a double war. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 9. | The aweless lion could not wage the figh. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | You are a rich man, upon my life, to waste wages in that way. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 11. | Summer wages are always highest. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 12. | Now, Joe kept a journeyman at weekly wages whose name was Orlick. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 13. | The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 14. | But wages evidently make a part of it. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 15. | thy master for wages follows not thee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | "At the wages I pay him, he knows better than to do any independent thinking. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 17. | The wages of their virtue, and all foe. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 18. | Our praises are our wages you may ride'. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |