| 1. | Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Those august hands no longer moved. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beaut. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 6. | It is as august in rags as in fleurs de lys.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 8. | He comprehended, moreover, the true character, the august aims, the supreme majesty and dignity of the poetic sentiment. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 9. | But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |