| 1. | This and this only is back of every human digression from indiscretion to murder. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | Here a short digression becomes necessary. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | But this is mere digression from my purpose. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | example my digression by some mighty precedent. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | though we may also defend our digression by his example Theaet.. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | The more you and I converse, the better for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me." After this digression he proceeded-. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | I think that the digression of my thoughts must have done me good, for when I got back to bed I found a lethargy creeping over me. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 8. | we come upon a digression treating of the weight of water this has here been omitted. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 9. | Waste not a day in vain digression With resolute, courageous trust Seize every possible impression, And make it firmly your possession You'll then work on, because you must. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 10. | His head has no such decided digressions from the normal as the round head of the Alimentive or the kite-shaped head of the Thoracic. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 11. | The remainder of the work is filled up with digressions foreign to the main subject, and with discussions about the education of the guardians. - from The Republic by Plato |