This obliquity is caused by a change of place, performed rather by the internal than the external ring.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Operat.) states the length of the inguinal canal in a well-formed adult, measured from the internal to the external ring, to be 1-1/2 or 2 inches, and 3 inches including the rings; but that in some individuals the rings are placed nearly opposite; whilst in young subjects the two rings nearly always correspond.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

“I don’t think it the true explanation,” replied the priest placidly; “but you said that nobody could connect the four things.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

H. The obliquity of this course, pursued by the hernia, from the internal to the external ring, has gained for it the name of oblique hernia.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

All the islands are frequented by birds; but the largest, the South Farallon, on which the light-house stands, is the favorite resort of these creatures, who come here in astonishing numbers every summer to breed; and it is to this island that the eggers resort at that season to obtain supplies of sea-birds' eggs for the San Francisco market, where they have a regular and large sale.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

The idea that the earthly ruler is the terrestrial representative of a world-governing deity, or, as occurs in extreme cases, that he is the world-governing deity himself, is, therefore, a conception that is closely bound up with the rise of political society and that receives pregnant expression in the earliest forms of the legal system.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

Landing on the Manhattan shore, the boys shouldered their luggage and trudged by ill-lighted lanes across the island to the East River.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

Dr. Ladd thinks it was not the reading of the Bible which produced the Reformation; it was the Reformation itself which procured the reading of the Bible.[1] But Dr. Rashdall and Professor Pollard and others are right when they insist that the English Reformation received less from Luther than from the secret reading of the Scripture over the whole country.
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee

Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence Into this house pour down thy influence, That through each room a golden pipe may run Of living water by thy benison.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

The general character of the Newspaper Press, both in London and the country, has so greatly improved of late years, as (with a very few despicable exceptions) to render the appearance now-a-days, of such a paragraph as that in the text, exceedingly rare.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

W E here begin the record of that portion of Lord Palmerston’s life which is of truth important to the English reader.
— from Lord Palmerston by Anthony Trollope

This paternal offspring of vegetables, I mean their buds and bulbs, is attended with a very curious circumstance; and that is, that they exactly resemble their parents, as is observable in grafting fruit-trees, and in propagating flower-roots; whereas the seminal offspring of plants, being supplied with nutriment by the mother, is liable to perpetual variation.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

And your excellent father, how is he?” He indicated a chair to Michael, who, as advised, instantly took it, though the Emperor remained a moment longer standing.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson