We have already seen that nutrition, absorption, transformation, and excitation are not the characteristics of living organisms alone; nor is reaction to external impressions the appanage only of animate beings.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc
She touched his white cheek with her finger-tips, and wondered about him, and pitied him, and took possession of him as a new and precious appanage of her life, so that when the labourers appeared, she said- "He's very badly hurt.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
Unless Science have some positive evidence to bring, demonstrating how the gulf can be bridged which separates the intelligence of the most degraded races of men from the highest of the brutes, and how articulate language can spontaneously have arisen, which is the necessary appanage of reason, we have all equally the means of forming our conclusions on the subject.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard