| 1. | In this perfidious fraud, contagion spre. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | The contagion of such a unanimous fear was inevitable. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | Latona's son a dire contagion spread. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | To dare the vile contagion of the nigh. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | All the contagion of the south light on you. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | He had caught the contagion of the excitement, and he felt that in some way he must do a great thing for John Thornton. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 7. | I was a little depressed at first with the contagion of my wife's fears, but very soon my thoughts reverted to the Martians. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 8. | Because of all this he became possessed of a great pride in himself, which communicated itself like a contagion to his physical being. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 9. | There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 10. | A hundred diseases, all the fevers and contagions of human life, consumption, cancers, tumours and such morbidities, never enter the scheme of their life. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |