| 1. | In close recess and secret conclave sa. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | She kept me in at recess and talked to me. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | This Flourie Plat, the sweet recess of EV. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches o. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 5. | If such thy will, to that recess retire. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 7. | At the top was the ragged curtain hiding the recess where Tommy had hidden that day. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |