The part of the groin where the spermatic fascia is first derived from the aponeurosis, so as to envelope the cord, varies in several individuals; and thereupon depends, in great measure, the strength or weakness of the groin.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

It is not ugly, you see, at this end; there is some fine timber, but the situation of the house is dreadful.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

And if Cherea was of that mind, I esteem him the greatest of all fools, in pleasing himself in his spite against Caius, rather than immediately procuring safety to himself and to his confederates from the dangers they were in, because there might many things still happen for helping Caius's escape, if he had not already given up the ghost; for certainly Cherea would have regard, not so much to the punishment of Caius, as to the affliction himself and his friends were in, while it was in his power, after such success, to keep silent, and to escape the wrath of Caius's defenders, and not to leave it to uncertainty whether he should gain the end he aimed at or not, and after an unreasonable manner to act as if he had a mind to ruin himself, and lose the opportunity that lay before him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I cannot settle this question from personal knowledge of the facts; but I have been under the belief, from information given to me by General Wilson shortly after the event, that when Mr. Davis learned that he was surrounded by our cavalry he was in his tent dressed in a gentleman's dressing gown.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This example is excellent training, since it is easy to divide it into three stages and to explain the main point of each part.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Accordingly they all sailed with their prows directed straight at their enemy: they did not think the engagement worth even the trouble of ranging their ships in any order, but advanced as though to seize a booty exposed for their acceptance.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

She started at the endearment, though it had been spoken advisedly without fervour.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Lily was confident that the clerk would fill it without hesitation; yet the nervous dread of a refusal, or even of an expression of doubt, communicated itself to her restless hands as she affected to examine the bottles of perfume stacked on the glass case before her.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Only a synthesis from various fields of research can decide what relative importance in the genesis of religion is to be assigned to the mechanism which we are to discuss; but such a task exceeds the means as well as the intentions of the psychoanalyst.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

(3) Finally, while admitting that the decomposition of plants can cause organic matter to assume these different states, other scientists think that it is not necessary for such matter to have been peat and lignite in order to become coal, and that at the carboniferous epoch plants were capable of passing directly to the state of coal if the conditions were favorable; and, in the same way, in the secondary and tertiary epochs the alteration of vegetable tissues generally led to lignite, while now they give rise to peat.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

He walked close to her side as they entered the luncheon-room.
— from Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Their arms were tightly bound behind their backs, but their feet were tied so as to enable them to make short steps.
— from Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

It so happened that the 18th was one of several regiments about to be reduced at this time; and as soon as that event took place, Cornet (p. 220) Scott was sent to travel in Germany, with a view to his improvement in the science of his profession.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Vlastov drove back the Berg troops into the main line of the 9th Corps; but was then checked, though a battery established by Diebich made terrible havoc among the wild crowd which was surging around the entrance to the bridges.
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord

They were of thin muslin, and on them were painted scenes representing the River of Life, with hills and castles, valleys and streams, in a long series; at the end there was a faint vision of a crystal dome in the air—the Celestial City—nearly washed away.
— from The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen

It may be doubted whether the mere disfranchisement of the citizens of these States—though that condition were supposed to include every right and privilege dear to freemen—would have prevailed with this people to embrace those extreme measures which, soon after this event, they were driven to adopt with such unanimity.
— from K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. by James Melville Beard

Any boy may be fitted for college, or for commercial pursuits, in such a school, and the expense to the parent will be next to nothing.
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

The President himself has given your father tickets, for they are great friends and we must all be ready early so as to escape the crowd."
— from Our Little Brazilian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet