The precise seat of the stricture cannot be known except during the operation.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

But this Light being trajected only through the parallel Superficies of the two Prisms, if it suffer'd any change by the Refraction of one Superficies it lost that Impression by the contrary Refraction of the other Superficies, and so being restor'd to its pristine Constitution, became of the same Nature and Condition as at first before its Incidence on those Prisms; and therefore, before its Incidence, was as much compounded of Rays differently refrangible, as afterwards.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The political society of the ancient Germans has the appearance of a voluntary alliance of independent warriors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The patriotic Cyprian, who ruled with the most absolute sway the church of Carthage and the provincial synods, opposed with resolution and success the ambition of the Roman pontiff, artfully connected his own cause with that of the eastern bishops, and, like Hannibal, sought out new allies in the heart of Asia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The splendor and magnitude of this Gothic war are celebrated by a contemporary historian: but the events scarcely deserve the attention of posterity, except as the preliminary steps of the approaching decline and fall of the empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Though I am the wife of one of the most influential men in the county, I don't know that I wasn't nearly as well off at Mr. Dawson's; and yet it's something to wear sables that cost sixty guineas, and have a thousand pounds spent on the decoration of one's apartments.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But undeterred, he prepared his mammoth mould, dented with mythological devices; kindled his fires of balsamic firs; melted his tin and copper, and, throwing in much plate, contributed by the public spirit of the nobles, let loose the tide.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

So he determined to persecute some of his poor but happy friends with it.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipt, and she fell into the rapid stream.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This is the most difficult thing of all to persuade some of you.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

The lad who was leading the horse seemed to be no Quaker, though his intercourse with the family had given him a touch of their prim sobriety of look and manner.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

The pitiful store of money which her last-stand financiering had raked together would not be renewed when spent, nor would it last long.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

The materialism of the last century seems to have maintained a strong hold upon one part of the Paris school of medicine.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville

The preceding story of the Hunter and his Dog, it will be observed, is closely allied to that of the Brahman’s Wife and the Mongoose; and in conclusion, where the hunter erects a stately tomb over his dog’s remains, it presents a striking resemblance to the Welsh legend of Llewellyn and the dog Gellert, which is probably not merely fortuitous.
— from Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Pandit Natesa Sastri

This was the preconcerted signal of the sentinels, who so well simulated the mournful notes of the bird of night that the British sentries only wondered why so many were abroad, and the noiselessly moving troops sometimes thought the owls had conspired to lead them astray.
— from Vermont: A Study of Independence by Rowland Evans Robinson

Instead of the characters of an alternative pair being due to two separate factors, we now regard them as the expression of the only two possible states of a single factor, viz.
— from Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

In Mr. Seddon's works, the primal object is to place the spectator, as far as Art can do, in the scene represented, and to give him the perfect sensation of its reality, wholly unmodified by the artist's execution."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The action of the psychical stimuli on the nerve fibre, and its transmission thence to the muscles resulting in the movement of the board, is so subtle that we ourselves are not aware of its operation except through the results produced.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

That the potential subjectivity of the physical elements, namely the elements of feeling, cannot be seen; as motions can be seen and objectively observed, is not a reason that militates against this view; for it is the nature of all subjective states to be felt only by the feeling subject.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

The general effect of the terrace is pleasing; and the pediments, supported on an arched rustic basement by fluted Doric columns, are full of richness and chaste design; the centre representing an emblematical group of the arts and sciences, the two ends being occupied with antique devices; and the three surmounted with figures of the Muses.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various