| 1. | It's some of those secular priests, ignorant, bumptious----. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | Sitnikov was the tutor to whom Seryozha's secular education had been intrusted. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | ruined He liveth helpless, and all desolate I speak of folk in secular estat. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | A solution of the secular problem of the quadrature of the circle, government premium ,, pounds sterling. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | It has mingled, though with regret, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the nation. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Though the drama was of religious origin, we must not overlook these secular pageants as an important factor in the development of dramatic art. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | the nature and habits of oviparous animals, the possibility of aerial flight, certain abnormalities of vision, the secular process of imbalsamatio. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | The first of these was a secular priest who came to Ceb about , may have taken the Augustinian habit some time after his arrival, and died not long after. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous |