| 1. | Ere the leviathan can swim a league. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | But stop does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish even the great leviathan himsel. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan The awful tauntings in Job might well appal me. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | For not by hook or by net could this vast leviathan be caught, when sailing a thousand fathoms beneath the sunlight. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest dow. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am as Job's leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | And as for my exact knowledge of the bones of the leviathan in their gigantic, full grown development, for that rare knowledge I am indebted to my late royal friend Tranquo, king of Tranque, one of the Arsacides. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | Will he the leviathan make a covenant with thee Behold the hope of him is vain But I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans I have had to do with whales with these visible hands I am in earnest and I will try. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 10. | Whether this whale belonged to the pod in advance, seemed questionable for it is not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |