He leaves the fore half of the creature, and all the internals, in the wood where he killed it, taking home only the hind-quarters and the hide.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
It is, perhaps, needless to say that I am always made to figure as a Philistine in these gatherings, as a penalty for my lack of sympathy with the whole theory of valuing books by their dates, editions, and bindings rather than their "eternal internals."
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
A man when he dies, quits his external, and retains his internal; for externals properly belong to his body, and internals to his spirit.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg