| 1. | Made passive both, had servd necessitie. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Thir march was, and the passive Air upbor. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | Vandemeyer lay perfectly passive with closed eyes. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | There could be no harm in a scheme, a mere passive scheme. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 5. | She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | She really was both innocent and corrupt, but a sweet and passive woman. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | "Yes, in a passive way I make no effort I follow as inclination guides me. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | This is the case with passive natures. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | To such as may the passive drugs of i. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |