| 1. | Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | There is no merit in such goodness.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | MESSIAH, who by right of merit Reigns. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | Of merit high to all th' infernal Host. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 5. | Ascend to Heav'n, by merit thine, and se. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 6. | Not here, till by degrees of merit rais'. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 7. | Could merit more then that small infantr. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 8. | But that the merit of service i. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | What think a farmer, and with all his sense and all his merit Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 10. | Illaudable, naught merits but disprais. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | And what most merits fame in silence hid. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 12. | Such recompence best merits from the boug. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 13. | "Your merits should be publicly recognized. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 14. | That reaches blame, but rather merits prais. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 15. | dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 16. | Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 17. | See what pre-eminence our merits gai. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 18. | We answer others' merits in our name. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |