| 1. | My heart was beating so fast, and there was such a singing in my ears, that I could scarcely stammer I had no objection. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | I blushed up to the ears, and tried to stammer out an excuse. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 3. | The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few inarticulate sounds. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | I began to stammer feebly that I hoped she hadn't thought--But again she stopped me, and her words were so unexpected that they quite drove Cynthia, and her troubles, out of my mind. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | But then again, what has the whale to say Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | For a few days, I said, he seemed regardless of the puny successor to the departed that coldness melted as fast as snow in April, and ere the tiny thing could stammer a word or totter a step it wielded a despot's sceptre in his heart. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | That I may speak in parables and halt and stammer like the poets and verily I am ashamed that I have still to be a poe. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 9. | Thus speak and stammer "That is MY good, that do I love, thus doth it please me entirely, thus only do _I_ desire the good. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |