This she called "looking after the externals."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

So delighted were his friends, the Clerks and the Bennets, Professors Drummond and Maclaurin, and many others, with the vraisemblance to Scottish rural life, and with the true rustic flavour present in the two dialogues, that they entreated him to add some connecting links, and to expand them into a pastoral drama.
— from Allan Ramsay by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

He's not indebted to the merchant's toil, Nor fears that pirates' force or storms should rob him Of rich Canaries or sweet Candian wines: He smells nor seeks no feasts; but in his own True strength contracted lives, and there enjoys A greater freedom than the Parthian king.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

A little snaky flame wriggled its way along a piece of sagging cordage, licked at the edges of a torn sail, and flared outward in a burst of red fire.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

So Conicall lines, as the Ellipsis, Hyperbole, and Parabole, are called solid lines because they do arise from the cutting of a body.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus