| 1. | They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | Were people to gape at the mystery of his life That was impossible. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 3. | Here gape your great grandsons, their wives gaze at them from the windows. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Let the fool gape and shudder--the man knows, and can look on without a wink. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 5. | Which gape and rub the elbow at the new. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Let gallows gape for dog let man go free. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape o. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | As in a theatre, whence they gape and poin. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | Or, earth, gape open wide and eat him quick. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | And young affection gapes to be his hei. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 12. | There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 13. | Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 14. | From the sidemirrors two mourning Masters Dignam gaped silently. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 15. | Lydia gaped as he opened the volume, and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him wit. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 16. | How she would have gaped if she had realized that her "coarse kitchen salt" was strychnine, one of the most deadly poisons known to mankind. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 17. | They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. - from The King James Bible |
| 18. | To whom the coiner thus "Thy mouth gapes wide as ever to let pass Its evil saying. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |