| 1. | When any of these nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes used to beg for the use of the sitting-room, and I would retire to my bed-room. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | Thus spake Zarathustra and was about to go but the nondescript grasped at a corner of his garment and began anew to gurgle and seek for words. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | BLOOM _Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with badge_ I was in my teens, a growing boy. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | But these are nondescripts and may be found equally among Hellenes and among barbarians. - from The Republic by Plato |