| 1. | As high he soard, obnoxious first or las. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | We swept on, and I felt that I was highly obnoxious to Camilla. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | "I thought it was madness," he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, "and now I begin to fear it is disgrace.. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years, when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 5. | "A Custum 'Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons," said the Jack, repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, "when they comes betwixt him and his own light. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Turning from Bessie though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been, I scrutinised the face of the gentleman I knew him it was Mr. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses. - from The Republic by Plato |