| 1. | "They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise them.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | According to the statute of the town. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | It longeth eke this statute for to hold. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 4. | The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The tenth statute was, Equally to discer. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Ere humane statute purged the gentle wea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | "And keep the statute given them of kind. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8. | well There lay none oath to this statute adele. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | find fault with And every statute coud he plain by rot. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundles. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | Against the laws and statutes of this town. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | We have strict statutes and most biting laws. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | His statutes cancell'd, and his treasure spen. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | By some old statutes of Edward III, Henry VIII. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 16. | I will keep thy statutes O forsake me not utterly. - from The King James Bible |
| 17. | Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 18. | piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |