Fouché, indeed, observes, that there are mountains composed principally of natural loadstone, which might sensibly attract a shoe containing iron nails.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

M. Cervical plexus of nerves giving off the phrenic nerve to descend the neck on the outer side of the internal jugular vein and over the scalenus muscle.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

This edict was scarcely exhibited to the public view, in the most conspicuous place of Nicomedia, before it was torn down by the hands of a Christian, who expressed at the same time, by the bitterest invectives, his contempt as well as abhorrence for such impious and tyrannical governors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

When he had reached the age of seventeen, which by the laws of that country, was the period of majority for the crown, all the great men of his court, and the governors of the provinces, according to established custom, laid at his feet presents consisting of the most costly products of nature and art that they had been able to procure.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekata Party [Keshav Prasad MAINALI]; Communist Party of Nepal (ML)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Fernando had been unlucky with his wives, as the first three proved to be short-lived, and the fourth, Maria Cristina, Princess of Naples, presented him with two daughters and no sons.
— from Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

They occupy the most conspicuous places, on nearly every hilltop, on points jutting out into the rivers, and near the chief highways.
— from Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage by Henry Park Cochrane

I am confident that a more conscientious, painstaking official never filled public station.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

No, in the second dog-watch here, one took a solemn constitutional preparatory to dressing for dinner; and in the first night-watch one smoked and listened willy-nilly to polite small talk, and (from the ship's orchestra) the latest and most criminal products of New York's musical genius.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson