Political abstractions, such as Justice, or Liberty, or the State, stand in our minds as things having a real existence.
— from Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas

Can you believe it possible, my dear boy, that his father, on my appeal to him, absolutely refused either to help your cousin in his most laudable wish, or to explain to him why he did not?
— from The House on the Moor, v. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

98,179.--SOAP.--C.P. McGimsey, Memphis, Tenn. 98,180.--METHOD OF HEADING SCREWS.--Daniel T. Munger (assignor to himself and Rufus E. Hitchcock), Waterbury, Conn. 98,181.--BRICK MOLD.--Matthew Newlove (assignor to himself and Samuel Gilbert) Burlington, Iowa. 98,182.--HARVESTER CUTTER.--Theodore Neys, Menomonee, Wis., assignor to himself and Alexis I. Brunell.
— from Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

“Great Scot!” cried the American, smiling at O’Neil’s naïve manner and the happy and roguish expression on his face, our guest’s appearance having been much improved by the food of which he had partaken as well as the stimulant, which had put some little colour into his pale cheeks.
— from The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

To Virgil, on the other hand, the gods of mythology appear to have a real existence, as manifestations of the divine energy, revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar