| 1. | "Aye, that is just like your formality and discretion. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 2. | without devoting any time to the formality of wishing the company good-morning. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | The purity of her life, the formality of her notions, her ignorance of the world--every thing was against me. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 4. | "Must this last formality take place in your presence, sir" inquired a turnkey. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | "He stated with a good deal of formality that had we not been 'of the same profession,' he would have kept the matter to himself without regard to consequences. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 6. | "This'll tike us rahnd Edgware" asked the driver, wild-eyed, white-faced and when my brother told him it would if he turned to the left, he whipped up at once without the formality of thanks. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 7. | When this formality was ended, as her duties called her to chapel, she left the two young women alone. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | Signor Luigi," continued Albert, "is there any formality to fulfil before I take leave of your excellency. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | The small amount of truth to visual nature in the work of earlier men went better with the formality of such compositions. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |