| 1. | The rudimentary precautions to keep our imprisonment endurable he would not observe. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | July.--There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | 'After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of to-day are still in the rudimentary stage. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | When she held her, she sunk her rudimentary nails into the poor girl's flesh, or twisted her arm in a most painful manner. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 5. | No born gentleman, no-one with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such particularly loathsome conduct. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |