Its summit, back, and upper sides are free and covered by the elastic peritonaeum, whilst its front, lower sides, and base are adherent to adjacent parts, and divested of the serous membrane.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups, they give pleasure by recalling impressions of nature, by reviving happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage, by evoking the memory of beautiful days.
— from In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

It baffled the doctor, who often, during the night, declared that there was “no sense in a wound like that working up such a fever,” adding curses upon the folly of The Duke and his Company.
— from The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills by Ralph Connor

Then the United States asked for a chance to develop it.
— from Jet Plane Mystery by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Again they hailed, imploring to be picked up, stating, as far as could be understood, that they had broken adrift from astern of the Asp , with the gig, which was lost; and from the words which reached the Lark , Mr Kingston was very much afraid that several lives were already sacrificed, while it seemed too probable that those in the pinnace would share the same fate, unless he could manage to get near them to take them on board.
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

In this connection I renew my recommendation, made at the opening of the last session of Congress, that a special court be created to hear and determine all claims of aliens against the United States arising from acts committed against their persons or property during the insurrection.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

An artificial channel through Lake George, made some years ago by the United States authorities, follows a circular course, and it is not possible to pass through it after dark without extraordinary precaution.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming

The civil authorities were forbidden to arrest, try, and imprison discharged soldiers of the United States army for acts committed while in service.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

For this reason, the Australians took kindly to the idea of celebrating the independence of the United States, as formerly a colony of Great Britain.
— from My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train