| 1. | "Here is a sovereign for you," said Dorian. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Unwittingly, I had hit upon a sovereign remedy for her tears. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | I changed a sovereign I remember. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | For the rest Eve's sovereign remedy. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | The first of men in sovereign miser. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | Good morrow to my sovereign king an. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | Unto the sovereign mercy of the Kin. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Sikes, snatching it from him, hastily opened it and proceeded to count the sovereigns it contained. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 12. | Holmes, and on Saturday the manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my week's work. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 13. | "'There are five sovereigns here,' said he, walking up to me, 'which will, I hope, be a sufficient fee. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 14. | Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 15. | He thrust his hand into a side-pocket and producing a canvas bag, told out twenty-five sovereigns on the table, and pushed them over to the woman. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 16. | The sovereigns Why, they are sending ambassadors to compliment the usurper.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 17. | As he spoke, he pushed a couple of sovereigns across the table to his companion, carefully, as though unwilling that the chinking of money should be heard without. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 18. | "The sovereigns will not be able to endure this man who is a menace to everything.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |