| 1. | One effort more, my altar this bleak san. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | It blew bleak as winter--all round was solitary. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | He walked through the bleak alleys where they had walked four years before. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hil. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 7. | In winter's bleak un comfortable reign. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | --Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lip. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |