The main blood vessels and nerves of the arm traverse the front aspect of the wrist, and are distributed chiefly to supply the palmar surface of the hand, since in the palm are to be found a greater variety and number of structures than are met with on the back of the hand.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

For we have provided great entertainments for the ears by inventing and modulating the variety and nature of sounds; we have learned to survey the stars, not only those that are fixed, but also those which are improperly called wandering; and the man who has acquainted himself with all their revolutions and motions is fairly considered to have a soul resembling the soul of that Being who has created those stars in the heavens: for when Archimedes described in a sphere the motions of the moon, sun, and five planets, he did the very same thing as Plato’s God, in his Timæus, who made the world, causing one revolution to adjust motions differing as much as possible in their slowness and velocity.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ug Bitkung ang makabanhig way mabúhì, When the Vietcong ambush, no one survives.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Pg 261] The ancient philosophers and legislators were deeply impressed with the contrast between an inland and a maritime city: in the former, simplicity and uniformity of life, tenacity of ancient habits and dislike of what is new or foreign, great force of exclusive sympathy and narrow range both of objects and ideas; in the latter, variety and novelty of sensations, expansive imagination, toleration, and occasional preference for extraneous customs, greater activity of the individual and corresponding mutability of the state.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Close to the outskirts of every big village a number of stones may be noticed stuck into the ground, apparently without order or method.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It is also necessary that the landed property should belong to these men; for it is necessary that the citizens should be rich, and these are the men proper for citizens; for no mechanic ought to be admitted to the rights of a citizen, nor any other sort of people whose employment is not entirely noble, honourable, and virtuous; this is evident from the principle we at first set out with; for to be happy it is necessary to be virtuous; and no one should say that a city is happy while he considers only one part of its citizens, but for that purpose he ought to examine into all of them.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

During three years I used to pay each village a monthly visit, and no one suspected that I was a Thug!
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

It is also the custom, when cholera or smallpox is epidemic in the same district, to make a little car, “on which are placed a grain of saffron-stained 61 rice for every soul in the village, and numerous offerings such as little swings, pots, knives, ploughs, and the like, and the blood of certain sacrificial victims, and this is then dragged with due ceremony to the boundary of the village.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

And like Vicksburg and New Orleans, she has her ice-factory: she makes thirty tons of ice a day.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

How can you know that her Voices are not of Satan, and she his mouthpiece?—for does not Satan know the secrets of men and use his knowledge for the destruction of their souls?
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

The first six signs, Aries to Virgo, are northern or sinister signs.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

He had an antipathy to fighting at close quarters, but he knew the value and necessity of striking; the Mauser enabled him to strike at the extreme limit of vision, multiplying tenfold the losses and difficulties of the enemy who attempted to close with him.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

Weeks after the school year had opened I once visited a number of school [ 510 ] gardens in Mindoro and found that several of them consisted of rectangular plots marked off on solid sod with shells picked up on the beach!
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

On Saturday night they slept in the kraal they had reached in the afternoon, having during the day visited a number of smaller kraals and villages, in which they [391] captured many assegais and other weapons.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

Brasseur de Bourbourg describes quite a number of very ancient nations, of some of which he endeavors to fix the localities, and which I insert here.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

He spoke no vessel during the whole voyage; and never once saw land until on the morning of the thirty-fifth day, when he descried St. Vincent’s right ahead, and running down, under a light breeze, along the windward coast of the island, came to anchor.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

I had been emperor but a year, and already I had made it certain that only the men of Vlamaland, and no others, should live in the sight of Jon.
— from The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

Under another extension of the term “nuisance” the industrial classes got the shadowy boon of all factories, workshops, and workplaces (not already under special Acts), being made subject to the sanitary supervision of the local authorities; and those authorities were given power to inspect such places to ascertain if they were kept in a cleanly state, were properly ventilated, and not overcrowded so as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inmates.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

The air was still thick with acrid smoke, rendering it difficult to see anything clearly at a distance greater than half a mile; but presently it thickened still more, and Jack recognised that the thickening was produced by a great cloud of dun-coloured dust, out of the midst of which there presently cantered into view a number of Spanish cavalry scouts, a dozen of whom, upon reaching the main road, wheeled to their right and dashed along it toward the point of its junction with the private road leading to Don Hermoso’s estate.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood