| 1. | The rosy and elastic dawn, the flashing sun. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | The lamps across his streets had a portentously elastic swing with them. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | Bloom unwound slowly the elastic band of his packet. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | And again the boat appeared and the Fay, but about the attitude of the latter there was more of care and uncertainty and less of elastic joy. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 9. | Catherine had reached her full height her figure was both plump and slender, elastic as steel, and her whole aspect sparkling with health and spirits. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |