| 1. | The colloquy there, the trio, each uttering. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Any colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | I never spoke to it, and it never spoke to me, in words but I read its eyes, and it read mine and our speechless colloquy was to this effect-. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, turned once more to M. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness, as vast, as intricate, and shadowy as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 6. | She really appeared very angry but, nevertheless, did not excite a whisper during all the colloquy before or after. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 7. | A smoky tap-room presented itself they entered, and the remainder of their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy conducted in a low tone-. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |