As the voice of the American has retreated from his chest to his throat and nasal passages, so there is danger that his contribution to literature will soon cease to imply any blood or viscera, or healthful carnality, or depth of human and manly affection, and will be the fruit entirely of our toploftical brilliancy and cleverness.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
So I had to relapse into the old carnality of mutton chops, like other folk: such extreme virtue doesn't pay.
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper
He shakes his head, and mourns over their worldliness, their carnality, their want of spiritual life; but does he better it by standing aloof, by shutting himself up with a few dismal-minded people, who come with their Bibles, and see in them, not what sound scholarly criticism teaches, but that which their own morbid fancy suggests?
"The Religious Life of London"
J. Ewing Ritchie