| 1. | Thy sleep dissent new Laws thou seest impos'. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | She paused.--Her daughter could not quite agree with her, but her dissent was not heard, and therefore gave no offence. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | But though without dissent this point be fixed, how is mortal man to account for it To analyse it, would seem impossible. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | "It is my mother who dissents she has a clear and penetrating judgment, and does not smile on the proposed union. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |