| 1. | Her venerable bows looked bearded. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | And all you venerable and innocent joys. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | I see him now, excellent and venerable old ma. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | "A good evening to you, venerable Father Wilson. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 5. | breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | Young Libertad with the venerable Asia, the all-mother. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 7. | Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated amid her ruin. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknow. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 9. | Sudden a venerable sight appear. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |