| 1. | Through the pure marble Air his oblique wa. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | The oblique staring expression in them fascinated him. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | Wide with distorted legs oblique he goes. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | With well-taught feet now shape in oblique ways. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | And dark through paths oblique their progress take. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 7. | brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial o. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Upholding the lid he who gazed in the coffin coffin at the oblique triple piano wires. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship's lee side, where the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |