| 1. | Athos killed his adversary first. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | But revenge kept me alive I dared not die and leave my adversary in being. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 3. | For the which I will be thy adversary toward Ann. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Heracles destroyed this new adversary with his club, and now called upon his nephew to come to his aid. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 5. | I had little hope that he could best his giant adversary who had mowed down all before him during the day. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 6. | And here the adversary says that _r_ slips and not _c_. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 7. | The adversary says that _a_ which projects, slips down. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 8. | His adversary had fallen senseless with excessive pain and the flow of blood, that gushed from an artery or a large vein. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 9. | And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. - from The King James Bible |