| 1. | No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclud. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Reed, I was not disposed to care much for the nursemaid's transitory anger and I _was_ disposed to bask in her youthful lightness of heart. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | He needed to bask himself in that smile, he said, in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | There is another count put into the indictment against them by Plato, that they are the friends of the tyrant, and bask in the sunshine of his patronage. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | Now it would roll on its back, yelping with delight, now bask in the sun with a thoughtful air of importance, and now frolic about playing with a chip of wood or a straw. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |