| 1. | They do not sweat and whine about their condition. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | "It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 3. | "Did you really think I was the kind of girl to roll about on the floor and whine for mercy. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 5. | Buck simply smothered him by virtue of superior weight, and cut him up till he ceased snapping and began to whine for mercy. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 6. | pain For as a horse I coulde bite and whine I coulde plain, an' I was in the guilt. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 8. | Occasionally the whistle of a huntsman, the snort of a horse, the crack of a whip, or the whine of a straggling hound could be heard. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | Buck whined with suppressed eagerness. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 10. | "But don't give me away to him," she whined "I am afraid of him. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 11. | "No but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little man. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 12. | The lash bit into him again and again, but he neither whined nor struggled. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 13. | And even Billee, the good-natured, was less good-natured, and whined not half so placatingly as in former days. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 14. | As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 15. | He whined placatingly, squirmed and wriggled to show his good will and intentions, and even ventured, as a bribe for peace, to lick Buck's face with his warm wet tongue. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 16. | Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet" He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 17. | "It is time to hunt again." He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |