| 1. | They communicated to each other that modicum of light which they possessed. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | Astounding In her lay a Godframed Godgiven preformed possibility which thou hast fructified with thy modicum of man's work. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 5. | Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters Hi. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |