The 1.38-Mev gamma rays emitted by sodium-24 are detected effectively by whole body counters.
— from Whole Body Counters by F. W. (Frederick W.) Lengemann

It is a German romance enlivened by some mysterious adventures, wanting only the opening pages, which no one can supply.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

Thursday, 6th .—We started as arranged at a quarter to nine to the Normal School for girls, richly endowed by some citizen, and entirely free.
— from The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters by Rayleigh, Clara, Lady

St. George repeated earnestly, but she had only the same answer.
— from Romance Island by Zona Gale

Figure 16 The number of 1.38-Mev gamma rays emitted by sodium-24 in the body of a reactor accident victim indicates he received about 900 rads of neutron irradiation.
— from Whole Body Counters by F. W. (Frederick W.) Lengemann

I remember that there was great regret expressed by some amateurs that this sketch should have been left in an unfinished state: but there I cannot agree with them; for the fragments and first bold outlines of original artists have often a felicity about them which is apt to vanish in the management of the details.
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

It is generally an advantage to secure a great refractive effect by several weaker than by one high-power lens.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

It has been the general impression, as before mentioned, that great resemblance existed between some of the religious rites of the Jews, and the peculiar ceremonies of the Indians; and the belief in one Great Spirit has tended to strengthen the impression; yet this mere resemblance only extended so far as to admit of the belief, that they possibly may have descended from the dispersed tribes, or may have been of Tartar or Malay origin.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

"When my grandmother was a little girl," Ruth Elliot began, "she lived with her father and mother in a small country town among the New Hampshire hills: and of all the stories she told in her old age about the quiet simple life of the people of Hilltown, the one her grandchildren liked best to hear was THE STORY OF PARSON LORRIMER'S WHITE HORSE.
— from Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Mary Spring Corning