| 1. | Nearing the end of his tether now. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 2. | And with a larger tether may he wal. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | _He worms down through a coalhole, his brown habit trailing its tether over rattling pebbles. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | And there he was at the end of his tether after having often painted the town tolerably pink without a beggarly stiver. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | Presently the horses began to scream, and tore at their tethers till I came to them and quieted them. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |