| 1. | But this Usurper his encroachment prou. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty, both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 3. | On the encroachments of the sea on the land and vice versa -. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 4. | She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 5. | A sad thing What it termed its concessions were our conquests what it termed our encroachments were our rights. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |