The artery, in company with the nerve and vein, re-enters the pelvis by the small sciatic foramen, and gets under cover of a dense fibrous membrane (obturator fascia), between which and the obturator muscle, it courses obliquely downwards and forwards to the forepart of the perinaeum.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In my terror and turmoil of mind I could imagine nothing less than that the Old Nick, at the moment of our overturn, had annihilated my wife and jumped into her petticoats.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Isabel told her uncle she had written to him, mentioning also his intention of coming; and the old man, in consequence, left his room earlier than usual and made his appearance at the two o’clock repast.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is sincerely attached to me, she said to the armchair: ‘Stretch out your arms to him,’ your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall give Cosette my arm . . .
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

"Oh, it's a trick of mine; I caught it of Father when I was a little thing, and do it without knowing it half the time," said Becky, [Pg 41] sinking down upon a mossy rock, as if rest were welcome.
— from Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair by Louisa May Alcott

And pleasant there to lie in bed And see the pictures overhead— The wars about Sebastopol, The grinning guns along the wall, The daring escalade, The plunging ships, the bleating sheep, The happy children ankle-deep And laughing as they wade: All these are vanished clean away, And the old manse is changed to-day; It wears an altered face And shields a stranger race.
— from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

You loved Lucy Arkell long before anybody thought of me, in connection with you; and I declare I honour the constancy of your heart in keeping true to her.
— from Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

But the non-satisfaction of the affections and intellect being inseparable from the unspeakable advantage of such a mind as that of man in connection with his corporal condition and terrene destiny, forms not at present an argument with me for the realization of particular desires.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

Me house is schmall and Bett is that prolific she could furnish kittens for all the ould maids in Christendom in little or no toime."
— from At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

How far would your heroism go, Morgan, if you met her in the street tonight, bespattered with public scorn, bedraggled with public contempt, crushed by the discovery of your mutual sin against that old man, Isom Chase?
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

I also give 20 l. per annum unto one schollar more in the same college, out of a tenement in the Manor of Wootton in Cornwall, during two lives of two Bigfords, and after their decease out of a tenement of mine in Cowkberry, in Devon, for ever.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

So Lafayette and several of the others were secretly transferred across the frontier to the [229] fortress of Olmutz, a town of Moravia in central Austria.
— from Lafayette, We Come! The Story of How a Young Frenchman Fought for Liberty in America and How America Now Fights for Liberty in France by Rupert Sargent Holland

While he is in the act of doing so, let us paint him to the reader--at least, as far as the outward man is concerned.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“I don’t see why you always think of money in connection with me,” said the [286] president.
— from The Teacup Club by Elisa Armstrong Bengough