| 1. | "His career has been an extraordinary one. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | The career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | "Well" she went on "you have a promising career before you. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | I must have a successful career which would mask my true activities.... - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | Miss Kathleen Kearney's musical career was ended in Dublin after that, he said. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 6. | Degeneracy, disease--never the deliberate embracing of a career by a far-seeing man. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 7. | Glibly enough, Tuppence ran through her imaginary career on the lines suggested by Mr. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | Restrain his bold career at least, to atten. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 9. | Through my means, He opens to you a noble career as my wife only can you enter upon it. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 10. | They've ruined their careers for the sake of women.. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 11. | Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | Did they find their educational careers simila. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 13. | What future careers had been possible for Bloom in the past and with what exemplar. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 14. | Quite apart from that he disliked those careers of wrongdoing and crime on principle. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 15. | But they were friends of many years' standing and their careers had been parallel, first at the University and then as teachers he could not risk a grandiose phrase with her. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 16. | But in spite of this, each of them--as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds--though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 17. | Then they hunted up Huckleberry Finn, and he joined them promptly, for all careers were one to him he was indifferent. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |