| 1. | Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | A chance meeting, a service rendered, a happy phrase, a knack of facetious mimicry, and a man's career might be made in a trice. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | With this irrepressible ebullition of mirth, Master Bates laid himself flat on the floor and kicked convulsively for five minutes, in an ectasy of facetious joy. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | "Yah" cried Wemmick, suddenly hitting out at the turnkey in a facetious way, "you're dumb as one of your own keys when you have to do with my principal, you know you are. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | "My captain, you must have ere this perceived, respected sir"--said the imperturbable godly-looking Bunger, slightly bowing to Ahab--"is apt to be facetious at times he spins us many clever things of that sort. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |