| 1. | Mean while the tepid Caves, and Fens and shoare. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | _A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | Enjoy a bath now clean trough of water, cool enamel, the gentle tepid stream. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | His hand looking for the where did I put found in his hip pocket soap lotion have to call tepid paper stuck. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | There was a Lion red, a wooer daring, Within the Lily's tepid bath espoused, And both, tormented then by flame unsparing, By turns in either bridal chamber housed. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |