| 1. | Are you not of some coterie some school or mere religio. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learnin. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | "On one side it's a plaything they play at being a parliament, and I'm neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings and on the other side" he stammered "it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a friend of her husband's, and the center of that one of the coteries of the Petersburg world with which Anna was, through her husband, in the closest relations. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |