| 1. | It seems that we must always have something to proscribe Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to deat. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthelemy slew Cournet. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | Occasionally he even went about late at night, holding the proscribed meetings and increasing his hold upon the common people. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 5. | "Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted over the plains of Bordeaux by Robespierre's bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | Both families were Catholic, and in his early life persecution was brought near for his brother died in prison for harboring a proscribed priest, and his own education could not be continued in Oxford and Cambridge because of his religion. - from English Literature by William J. Long |