| 1. | You thought me then devoid of every proper feeling, I am sure you did. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 2. | The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | Her life was beastly and devoid of pity. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | pure, devoid So fully made thy gentleness to trust. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | They do not wave their hands or arms about when talking and are almost devoid of gesticulation of any kind. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | Like its master, it was entirely devoid of hair, but was of a dark slate color and exceeding smooth and glossy. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 8. | Villefort watched him with alarm not devoid of admiration. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | The face which she turned towards us was of the strangest livid tint, and the features were absolutely devoid of any expression. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |