| 1. | Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Not a single impediment lay in the wheel-route--not even a chip or dead twig. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | Not a chip of the boat was harmed, nor a hair of any oarsman's head but the mate for ever sank. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | There was a glass of water on the table, and on the window-sill a small chip ointment box containing a couple of pills.. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | "What's this" It was a wax vesta half burned, which was so coated with mud that it looked at first like a little chip of wood. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | This inherent urge is what makes the owner of that jaw "fight at the drop of the hat," and often have "a chip on his shoulder.. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | And if your hardness will not glance and cut and chip to pieces, how can ye one day--create with m. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | He turned suddenly from a chip of strawberries, drew a gold watch from his fob and held it at its chain's length. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 10. | The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to belong to another decade. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 12. | Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 13. | The universe is finished the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 14. | Lunch-time found the young couple attacking a steak and chips in an obscure hostelry with avidity. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 15. | Chips, picking chips off one of his rocky thumbnails. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 16. | 'When wood is chopped the chips will fly.'" He looked at the paper again. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 17. | I've got a dog--and he'll go in the river and bring out chips that you throw in. - from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 18. | Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |