| 1. | Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | It's a sad pity of that likely young lass, and cant Nelly Dean.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | Questio quid juris "I ask which law applies" a cant law- Latin phrase. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 4. | "Stab me not with that keen steel Cant them cant them over know ye not the goblet end Turn up the socket So, so now, ye cup-bearers, advance. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | "Just as you please I'm sorry I cant spare ye a tablecloth for a mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here"--feeling of the knots and notches. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | "Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | OWING to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 8. | He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | The precise meaning of the word is unknown, but it is doubtless included in the cant term "pal". - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | Llore o cante Altisidora desesprese Madama, por quien me aporrearon en el castillo del moro encantado, que yo tengo de ser de Dulcinea, cocido o asado, limpio, bien criado y honesto, a pesar de todas las potestades hechiceras de la tierra. - from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |