| 1. | At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt--pink under the lurid sky. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | Even as I beheld this a lurid green glare lit the road about me and showed the distant woods towards Addlestone. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 5. | "Yea, woman, thou sayest truly" cried old Roger Chillingworth, letting the lurid fire of his heart blaze out before her eyes. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 6. | The impervious navigator heard these lurid tidings, undismayed. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 8. | Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | The sun, shining through the smoke that drove up from the tops of the trees, seemed blood red, and threw an unfamiliar lurid light upon everything. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |