| 1. | Her Temple on th' offensive Mountain, buil. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And indeed Tink was darting about again, using offensive language. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 3. | "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to you. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | So that this land, like an offensive wif. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | This scorn was not offensive to his master. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | He was a most offensive brute, though he had an extraordinary passion for Shakespeare. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | "But if you only knew how offensive it was... - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | Augustine, for instance, who lacks in an offensive manner, all nobility in bearing and desires. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 9. | Kutuzov did not consider any offensive necessary. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |