A. Anterior superior iliac spine.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Drawing a breath, pressing his hand against his throbbing heart, and once more feeling for the axe and setting it straight, he began softly and cautiously ascending the stairs, listening every minute.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And you must not suppose that those gerfalcons which the Christians carry into the Tartar dominions go to the Great Kaan; they are carried only to the Prince of the Levant.[NOTE 4] Now I have told you all about the provinces northward as far as the Ocean Sea, beyond which there is no more land at all; so I shall proceed to tell you of the other provinces on the way to the Great Kaan.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Several of my friends and brothers, if yet alive, are still in some part of the house of bondage; and though twenty years have passed away, the suspicious malice of slavery might punish them for even listening to my thoughts.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“How very ill Miss Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy,” she cried; “I never in my life saw anyone so much altered as she is since the winter.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He also followed Titus as a counselor, very useful to him in this war, both by his age and skill in such affairs.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But absoluteness is a pure, simple, unanalyzable idea in the Reason, and as such is seen and known by a direct insight as out of all plurality, relation, difference, and likeness: for this is a quality of the self-existent Person, and so belongs wholly to the sphere of the supernatural, and can be examined only by a spiritual person who is also supernatural.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

"I'm counting on that dance, and I haven't enjoyed myself at all since I saw you last.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Tom, Roger, and Astro sat in silent awe as they listened to the plans for man to reach toward the stars.
— from The Space Pioneers by Carey Rockwell

Heb. 4:13— “ there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all [pg 283] things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do ” —τετραχηλισμένα—with head bent back and neck laid bare, as animals slaughtered in sacrifice, or seized by the throat and thrown on the back, so that the priest might discover whether there was any blemish.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

He spent August at Scheveningen; in September his suspense was over, for his engagement to Cécile formally took place at Kronberg, near Frankfort.
— from The Loves of Great Composers by Gustav Kobbé

An English school miss, who has waited two hours in the rain, smuggles herself into the room: she prattles her enthusiasm with pretty infantile gush: a few deft words of paternal advice and she is summarily dismissed.
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

A huge aspen—impressionable creature—shivered and shook beyond, apologising for appearance among such imperturbable surroundings.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

I found Maria alone and sitting in state before the fire—which I believe was always in the kitchen a regal one.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner