| 1. | Cunningham in an evasive tone, "it's just a little... - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | "That is no answer or rather it is a very irritating, because a very evasive one. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | "She hadn't any right to call me ugly and redheaded," retorted Anne, evasive and defiant. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | To this inquiry the girl returned the not uncommon, but rather evasive reply of 'I don't know where do you come from. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | And who can say but that this sense, dull enough in most of us, is not an echo of a greater harmony existing somewhere the other side of things, that we dimly feel through them, evasive though it is. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |