| 1. | To be in love is to surpass one's self. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | In bigness to surpass Earths Giant Son. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | What have ye done to surpass ma. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | "I always said you would surpass them in learning and can you draw. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | Nothing can surpass in beauty the form, or the glossy, vivid green of the leaves of the tulip-tree. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | I confess that they quite surpass my expectations, and that I am utterly unable to account for your result. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | Dschungariade of the Calmucks is said to surpass the poems of Home. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | "Oh certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 9. | "My dear Inspector, you surpass yourself" Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |