6, the internal ring is situated nearly opposite to the external ring, 4.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I must learn the exact number of times those engines reciprocated in a minute, and I took out my watch for the purpose.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

I now offer to the English reading public a condensed edition of my work, with the title " England, Canada and the Great War ."
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

But this superstition failed to fasten itself upon Western civilization as it unfortunately did on the Eastern States; and the witches imported into the North-west were so few and insignificant in character that none of the tribe ever reached recognition to an extent sufficient to obtain more than a mere mention in the statute books of Ohio.
— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones

When the news of this tremendous event reached Washington, the Cabinet was in session.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Naturally, owing to the exceptional rush, the accounts were a little out, but as they happened to be on the right side this was a matter for congratulation rather than distress.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed

Two simple barks, urged by two oars, carried persons from one side to the other; but scarcely have they reached the opposite shore, and formed themselves in lines, than the news of the terrible event reaches them.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

In a vast semicircle within the great kraal the men drew up in something like order, regiment on regiment, to the number of two thousand, each regiment with shields differing in colour from those carried by the others.
— from The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville

A piece of this last stone carried the needle of the theodolite entirely round; yet the bearings taken from thence did not show any difference from those at Mount Caledon, and from those upon Point Alexander, taken from a hillock of sea sand, they did not differ more than half a degree.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders