| 1. | None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consen. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Again, of course no subordinate would have dared to do such a thing. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | When anyone is in a subordinate position, Mr. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| 4. | Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away for in a whaler wonders soon wane. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | "They don't mind what they ask of me, the subordinate but you'll never catch 'em asking any questions of my principal.. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | I consider myself fortunate to have such a subordinate by me. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | Iliad, the Athenians play a most subordinate and insignifican. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys without reasoning. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | Cronus now became invested with supreme power, and assigned to his brothers offices of distinction, subordinate only to himself. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 10. | His whole life is subordinated to his duty. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 11. | You women of the earth subordinated at your task. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | God subordinated to the commissary of police such is the age. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest road. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 15. | And as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its head. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 16. | Krogstad--You, one of my husband's subordinates But since you ask, you shall know. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| 17. | That day the minister's clerks and the subordinates had a great deal to put up with from his ill-humor. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 18. | The most beautiful profiles are usually those in which variety is subordinated to the unity of the contour. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |