For Christian, she sat by the fire, where her husband had placed her, absently taking in the externalities-warm, somber, luxurious-which, in all human probability, was now her home for life.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
But at first he could not, apparently, get free from it: and he might have seemed unable to dispense with its almost mechanical externalities of mis-spelling and the like.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)