| 1. | quite a substantial sum each month. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 2. | Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | Projecting them along that substantial life. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | "Except me I am substantial enough--touch me.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 5. | Of some rich Burgher, whose substantial dores. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 6. | You never had one shadow of substantial sorrow, Miss Catherine. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the groun. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | A fact thus set down in substantial history cannot easily be gainsaid. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | Acquitted by a true substantial form. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |