| 1. | Or envie, or what reserve forbids to tast. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | The like reserve prevailed on other topics. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 3. | With a little reserve of manner, Emma continue. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 4. | "Yes but we'll reserve ourselves besides it's hot. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | His reserve had been always excessive and habitual. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | Oakshott to-night, or whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of ma. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | I had been reserved for the latter. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 11. | One cannot love a reserved person.. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 12. | I will have no reserves from _you_.. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 13. | Mercy was a thing reserved for gentler climes. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 14. | But Lizzy, you have been very sly, very reserved with me. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 15. | Elizabeth reserved to herself the application for her mother's. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 16. | the gods had thus reserved for mankind took wing and flew away. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 17. | Poor Justine was very ill but other trials were reserved for her. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 18. | The Tiberii were reserved for him. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |