It can only be conceived as purposiveness in general without any [definite] purpose being assumed as its basis, and consequently without teleology being needed for it.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Meanwhile, though Mr. Allsop was popular with the higher classes and with such of the extreme poor as his charity relieved, his pastoral influence generally was a dead letter.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Some new people now coming in, and placing themselves in a regular way, Miss Monckton exclaimed,—“My whole care is to prevent a circle;” and hastily rising, she pulled about the chairs, and planted the people in groups, with as dexterous a disorder as you would desire to see.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Phil in gloves was a different Phil, a remote being quite out of hailing distance.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

"Well, Phil, I guess we all do the best we can.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

A dirty, nasty, noisy place it generally was; and dirty and nasty, though not very noisy, it was this morning, for the only sound to be heard was the voice of one of its occupants, chattering incessantly, and the scratching of the other's pen, as he wrote, perched up on a high stool.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

"Custom exacts, and who denies her sway?" remarks Colman, the younger; and for many years the design of our managers, in catering for the public, has comprehended the representation of one play only for the performance of an evening; setting it elaborately, bestowing upon it a wealth of scenic embellishment, and presenting it generally with a due regard to strength and fitness of cast.
— from William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances by William L. (William Linn) Keese

With the disappearance of the philosopher 'in general' would also disappear the last social vestige of the teleologist or metaphysician, and of the Buddha or Awakened One.
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

I knew one poor fellow, left penniless in Glasgow, with a delicate young wife near her confinement, and they had to come back to London by boat—steerage passage—for, after pledging everything, that was all they had money enough for.
— from On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome