| 1. | Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective fashion which was characteristic of him. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | 'I think so,' murmured the Provincial Mayor and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery gray, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | This, like "The Wanderer", is one of the many introspective passages in the work, and is full of innuendos and hints as to the Nietzschean outlook on life. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |