He loved everything there, animated or Inanimated; the very mud of the riverside; the very alligators, enormous and stolid, basking on it with impertinent unconcern.
"An Outcast of the Islands"
Joseph Conrad
Yet he could not command his memories that came crowding round him in that evil-smelling hut, while Babalatchi talked on in a flowing monotone, nothing of him moving but the lips, in the artificially Inanimated face.
"An Outcast of the Islands"
Joseph Conrad
The quick eyed Trout, is completely deceived by a cunning fabrication, the Inanimated thing of feathers, silk and fur, so closely resembles the natural fly, that he rises and seizes upon it for a real living fly-But ah!
"The Teesdale Angler"
R Lakeland