1.--The point, 3, from which an external inguinal hernia first progresses, and the part, 5, within which the femoral hernia begins to be formed, are very close to each other.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In this brochure is found a very curious portrait of Balzac, after a sepia by Louis Boulanger belonging to M. le Baron Larrey.]
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Near the shore they found a vast cave, into which they boldly entered.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Throughout all that first night spent in the garret, she had felt a vague comfort in knowing that on the other side of the wall in which the rats scuffled and squeaked there was another young human creature.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

From other parts of the gardens, the character of the view was entirely changed, and the fine solitary beauty of the landscape shifted for the crowded features and varied colouring of inhabitation.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Along with the coldness and dislike of his own partisans, he found a very considerable body of disaffected men, who wished to see the son of James II.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I expected to have found a very civil good sort of man.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The glorious hermit, far renowned, With highest fame and virtue crowned, Rejoiced these modest words to hear Delightful to the mind and ear.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

When they reached the city, they found a vast crowd of people together with the king, all of whom had been frightened by the mortars.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Then Illtyd struck the shore with his staff, ‘and thereupon flowed a very clear fountain, which is also beneficial for curing diseases, and which continues to flow without a falling off; and what is more wonderful, although it is near the sea, the water emitted is pure.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

But Sir William Johnson, his superior in the Indian department in America and his constant associate in colonizing enterprizes, writing to the two years subsequently, gave as his opinion that "some of the present Inhabitants may possibly incline to go home, and our Traders will I dare say chuse to purchase their rights, this may be the foundation for a Valuable Colony in that Country, —-—, this may be effected in time, & large cessions obtained of the Natives.
— from British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768 by Clarence Edwin Carter

The plates for the illustrations (200) have all been made with unusual care from original engravings and etchings, and together form a valuable collection.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

So I have found a very common result of their method to be that the string slipped, or that a piece only of the creature was broken off, and the worm soon grew again, as bad as ever.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young Italy is so rapidly developing the resources of her gifted people [viii] and of her fruitful lands, that she daily becomes more interesting to all who sympathize with a free and vigorous country; more especially to the English, who have many interests in common with her, and few, if any, reasons to fear either antagonism or competition.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

As there was great probability that we should remain a considerable time at Otaheite, it could not be expected that the intercourse of my people with the natives should be of a very reserved nature: I therefore ordered that every person should be examined by the surgeon, and had the satisfaction to learn from his report that they were all perfectly free from any venereal complaint.
— from A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies by William Bligh

Firewood and lumber always formed a very considerable item in the business of the canal.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 by Various

A Guide to the Orchard And Kitchen Garden; or, an account of the most valuable fruit and vegetables cultivated In Great Britain: with Kalendars of the Work Required in the Orchard and Kitchen Garden during every month in the year.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Still he was not surprised, for since the rabbits and fowls and Virginian creeper had begun to talk there was no reason why other things should not also.
— from Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Mr. Gue was a resident of Fort Dodge, where for years the atmosphere of that locality was permeated by the passion of men who had been disappointed in their attempt to secure a title to lands that they all knew before and at the time of the location and attempted entry on the same, had already been sold for a valuable consideration by the state of Iowa.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse