The orbicularis oculi muscle, which is principally supplied by the portio-dura nerve, is paralyzed, though it still retains a partial power of contraction, owing to the anatomical fact that some terminal twigs of the third or motor pair of nerves of the orbit branch into this muscle.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

"She is a friend of your daughter's—almost a mother to her; and I am not sure but that Natalie would willingly do that—more especially under your guardianship, in preference to that of Madame Potecki—" "Oh no, no!"
— from Sunrise by William Black

But the court, considering that the statute was originally enacted to remedy injustice to free persons of color, construed it liberally, and admitted the testimony of the colored boy, on the ground that the commission of an offence by two or more persons ought not to render a witness incompetent, who would be competent, if the offence had been committed by only one person.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But as soon as they become so distinct in their extremes as that, on one side, there shall be manifest redundance of possession, and on the other manifest pressure of need,—the terms "riches" and "poverty" are used to express the opposite states; being contrary only in the manner of the terms "warmth" and "cold"; which neither of them imply an actual degree, but only a relation to other degrees, of temperature.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

This leads us to think of mysterious powers of nature as operating in the history of Christ—powers such as we have some partial knowledge of, as, for example, those magnetic powers which have survived down to our own time, like ghosts lingering on after the coming of day.” From the standpoint of this spurious rationalism he proceeds to take Strauss to task for rejecting the miracles.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

It is true that even before the appearance of Darwinism they established their own moral principle of naturalistic determinism and of the education of man only by science and enlightenment, in opposition to a morality which rests on the principle of the eternal value of the individual, of full moral responsibility, of the holiness of the moral law, and of a divine author of it; they stigmatized the ethical requirement of aiming at the eternal welfare of the soul as a lower stage of morality in comparison with their own, which carries in itself the reward of virtue; and they declared Christianity and humanity, Christian morality and the morality of humanity, two things irreconcilably opposed to one another.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

This was found to be the case in Pennsylvania by Wilson, and is equally true of many portions of New England, though disputed by Mr. Audubon.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

This philosopher sought for the causes of harmony in the occult, miraculous powers of numbers.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

First then, I expect to be attack’d with that old moral Precept, of Not doing Evil that Good may come of it .
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett