The anterior or urethral space is (while viewed in reference to its osseous boundaries) triangular in shape, the apex being formed by the pubic symphysis beneath A, whilst two lines drawn from A to D D, would coincide with the ischio-pubic rami which form its sides.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The expedition was fitted out in Brittany, and sailed in March 1612; and, after a severe voyage, it reached the island of Fernando Noronha , whence it proceeded to Maranham .
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

It is only the outer edge of the lower side of the valve head that comes in contact with the surrounding surfaces of the opening which is closed when the valve is returned to its ordinary position by the spring.
— from The Gasoline Motor by Harold Whiting Slauson

Few of the passing Pretenders of the Era of Confusion had dared to despise it, some had even courted it; and thus throughout the Empire the Christian hierarchy had been established, and Christian churches been built everywhere; while Christians swarmed in every department of the Imperial service,—their neglect of the official worship winked at, while they, in turn, were not vigorous in rebuking the idolatry of their heathen fellow-servants.
— from Early Britain—Roman Britain by John William Edward Conybeare

Viewed in regard to its own fundamental properties and to those of its limiting cases, the logarithmic spiral is the simplest of all known curves; and the rigid uniformity of the simple laws, or forces, by which it is developed sufficiently account for its frequent manifestation in the structures built up by the slow and steady growth of organisms.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

[630] Disapproval of real wife-purchase thus early produced two very important results: the institution of dower, already mentioned, and the Ārsha rite, or ceremonial purchase, still the most common form of marriage in India.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

They bear this endorsement: "Marcus Whitman inclosing synopsis of a bill, with his views in reference to importance of the Oregon Territory, War.
— from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom by Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) Nixon

Thus much of their Phylacteries : In the same verse is reproved the inlarging of their borders .
— from Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews by Thomas Goodwin

And then let the world see how vice is rewarded — the indications of the satirist's acquaintance with the private life of his victim, all these must have stung the editor of the Quarterly to the quick, and are very little in Hunt's usual manner, though he had examples for them in Peter Pindar and others.
— from Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse