"Especially as the eye is now destroyed," said Gertrude, taking up the paper, "and the cipher is set down here.
— from The Disappearing Eye by Fergus Hume

Such a ligature is in use in blood-letting, an operation in which the fillet applied above the elbow is not drawn so tight but that the arteries at the wrist may still be felt beating under the finger.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

(2) This Epistle is no dogmatic summary.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

At this point she began a new career; forming new ties, engaging in new duties, studying new problems, and beginning a new activity in another sphere of labor.
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke

The cut of the cuticle covering the left parietal bone, just above the ear, is not dangerous, since there is no fracture.
— from An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice

—The hovel to which the eye is now directed scarcely exceeds Donoghue's length.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

The enemy is no doubt superior to us in numbers, but not in valor.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

The explanation is not difficult; streams flow constantly, or rather ooze into the Great Dismal Swamp from the land that lies to the west, but instead of bringing mud in with them as rivers bring to the sea, they bring only clear, pure water, because, as they filter for miles through the dense jungle of reeds, ferns, and shrubs which grow round the marsh, all the earth is sifted out and left behind.
— from The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley

Now the episcopate is not diversified specifically, but is one wherever it may be; wherefore Jerome says (Ep.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Though its orbit was not found to have been altered by this experience, its nucleus displayed signs of breaking up.
— from Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage