| 1. | Then cavil the conditions and though Go. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eye. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | 'Tis love you cavil at I am not Love. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hai. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | That's but a cavil he is old, I young. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | To cavil in the course of this contract. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Her eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no fuller bloom. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 8. | The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilet. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | Where are your cavils about the soul no. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | What other cavils have been raised against Homer, are such as hardly deserve a reply, but will yet be taken notice of as they occur in the course of the work. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |