| 1. | At the near approach of his redoubtable antagonist he turned and fled for his life. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 2. | It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls on the threshold of redoubtable events. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of Swords. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | After which effusion the redoubtable specimen duly arrived on the scene and regaining his seat he sank rather than sat heavily on the form provided. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant became transfigured he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in the formidable serenity of the shadows. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | It was one of those moments when he was exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | It was that first, redoubtable moment of inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |