If this natural boundary betwixt the external and internal cellular tissue is broken up, there is scarcely a possibility of preventing infiltration of the urine, which must almost certainly prove fatal.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

[‘ breech ’; v. ES 38·345] + brec n. noise, sound , CP. ± brēc = ±brǣc I. ± brecan I. sv 4 to ‘ break ,’ shatter, burst, tear , B, Bl, Ps : curtail, injure, violate, destroy, oppress , B, Da, KC ; AO, CP: break into, rush into, storm, capture ( city ), Ma ; CP: press, force : break or crash through, burst forth, spring out , An, Ph : subdue, tame , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

But which groups will ultimately prevail, no man can predict; for we know that many groups, formerly most extensively developed, have now become extinct.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

For the unity of power often exposes a king to become a despot; but when an aristocracy, consisting of many virtuous men, exercise power, that is the most fortunate circumstance possible for any state.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Kasabwaybwayreta changed place (from Orion’s belt on to the tree), he sat on the busa tree.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Twelve swans behold in beauteous order move, And stoop with closing pinions from above; Whom late the bird of Jove had driv’n along, And thro’ the clouds pursued the scatt’ring throng: Now, all united in a goodly team, They skim the ground, and seek the quiet stream.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Dr. Coutras paused for a moment, and then he addressed himself to me.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Brutia Coro Pulsante fretum mitior unda est.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Cash payments for less than the price of a share could be invested for ultimate redemption.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

Understanding that several of the persons concerned in the cases had been arrested, and having been informed by one of the representatives to congress, from Delaware, that the laws of that state inflict corporeal punishment for offences of this kind, such as whipping, cropping the ears, and exposure in the pillory, I wrote a reply to the above letter, of which the following is an extract: 71.
— from American Slave Trade Or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers take Free People from some of the United States of America, and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves in other of the States; and of the horrible Cruelties practised in the carrying on of this most infamous Traffic by Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834

Abdomen truncate, conical, smooth, with irregular, roundish pores, and nine stout and straight, little divergent ribs, which are prolonged into nine cylindrical, pointed feet of the same length.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

But possibly, as Huxley thinks, they may be the nearest relations of the Dinosauria and of the Reptiles akin to them, especially of the Compsognathus; at all events, the common primary form of all Birds must be looked for among the extinct Reptiles.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

These conquests proceeded from various points, under different leaders.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

Capell. prest Ff.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Will dis be a continual performance for the benefit of de fraternity?"
— from In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

I think to-day that I could play from the men’s tees.”
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim