The most obvious of seeming exceptions is where the object not in fact so identified, but only its covering or wrapper.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

This, therefore, was not my work, but an assistance to my work; for now, as I said, I had a great employment upon my hands, as follows: I had long studied to make, by some means or other, some earthen vessels, which, indeed, I wanted sorely, but knew not where to come at them.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

If human skill can by some contrivance fabricate vessels that float, out of metals which sink as soon as they are placed on the water, how much more credible is it that God, by some occult mode of operation, should even more certainly effect that these earthy masses be emancipated from the downward pressure of their weight?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Nor will the mind of our sovereign ever know repose, his kingdom settlement, or his business order, efficiency, or grace with his people, until things are established upon the basis of some set of men, who are trusted by the public, and who can trust one another.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

mitsahan n kerosene lamp made out of small empty tin cans.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Before the Revolution, all who had studied theology, either with the view of becoming ordained clergymen or merely of obtaining some ecclesiastical appointment or benefice, were generally so designated.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

A new interest surprises us, whilst, under the view now suggested, we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects; since "every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul."
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whereas Mr. Povey’s tickets were of a bluish-white, without gloss; the ink was neither black nor shiny, and the edges were amateurishly rough: the tickets had an unmistakable air of having been 'made out of something else’; moreover, the lettering had not the free, dashing style of Mr. Chawner’s tickets.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Opium, one-fifth oz., Fluid Extract of Mullen one oz., Syrup enough to make one pint.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

The facts that are available indicate that the first members of our species evolved in an equatorial continent which is now submerged, and which occupied a position between the present continents of Asia and Africa.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

We return now to our friends Mark Breezy, John Hockins, and James Ginger, whom we left in the act of quitting their prison after being the means of obtaining some extension of mercy to an unfortunate sufferer whom they left behind them there.
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Another mode of measuring volta-electricity may be adopted with advantage in many cases, dependent on the quantities of metals or other substances evolved either as primary or as secondary results; but I refrain from enlarging on this use of the products, until the principles on which their constancy depends have been fully established (791. 848.); 741.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

"But I do not believe she could make out our signals even with a glass, yet."
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich