| 1. | The best definitive grammar is Frank R. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |
| 2. | Each thing bears its true form, or at least, its definitive form. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | For several years I had been subject to attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy, in default of a more definitive title. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | The living perceive the infinite the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable and definitive decision might have sprung. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France it was Crecy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |