| 1. | He had sailed away in his ship to founder in some winter sea. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | Idly suppos'd the founder of this la. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | The founder of this law and female bar. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Says you, "Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun's. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is really managed by Miss Stoper. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 8. | Beowulf.--Son of Scyld, the founder of the dynasty of Scyldings. - from Beowulf by |
| 9. | Benedict was the first founder of a spiritual order in the Roman church. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | Nor good dry Land nigh founderd on he fares. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | George Pope Morris - was one of the founders of _The New York Mirror_, and for a time its editor. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 12. | "The volume of Plutarch's Lives which I possessed contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 13. | The Romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of their city. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 14. | Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse sometimes the carter is swallowed up with his cart all founders in that strand. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 15. | The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements, in the prevailing form of society. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 16. | No, he said there you are wrong, for I was going to ask another question--whether it is the State of which we are the founders and inventors, or some othe. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 17. | These are matters of which we are ignorant ourselves, and as founders of a city we should be unwise in trusting them to any interpreter but our ancestral deity. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 18. | The admiration of this whole sect for their master, who was himself a man of the greatest modesty and simplicity, is not inferior to that of any of the ancient philosophers for the founders of their respective systems. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |