| 1. | Or serve they as a flourie verge to bind. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Believe me, we are now on the verge of one. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | Down from the verge of Heav'n, Eternal wraut. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | I was on the verge of screaming I bit my hand. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 5. | Nervous shock, He's been on the verge all day. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 7. | The mystic token alighted on the hither verge of the stream. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 8. | He was on the verge of swooning. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | He is clearly on the verge of madness he was so last night at least. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 10. | All verges to it, all has reference to what ensues. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | She half smiled at him wanly, a sweet forgiving smile, a smile that verged on tears, and then they parted. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |