| 1. | "My mode of life in my hovel was uniform. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 2. | This mode of address was now prescribed by decree. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | Fagin nodded an expressive approval of this mode of treatment. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | The mode and the hour were all that occupied or distracted me. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Progress is man's mode of existence. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | Gardiner, whose curiosity as to the mode of her intelligence was all alive. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 8. | Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 9. | The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 10. | The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes continue. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men an. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 13. | He was giving Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, etc. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 14. | I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressin. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 15. | four modes of growing one above another. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 16. | Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary policial modes of action. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 17. | These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 18. | Verily, he is not indignant at their modes of consolation and ingratitude. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |