The right one, 5, contains a calculus, 6; the left one, of larger dimensions, is empty.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In the case of first crosses, the greater or less difficulty in effecting a union and in obtaining offspring apparently depends on several distinct causes.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

“I thought perhaps it always rained or looked dark in England,” Mary said.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"I thought perhaps it always rained or looked dark in England," Mary said. "Eh! no!" said Martha, sitting up on her heels among her black lead brushes.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The mechanics of liaison depend in each case on the Psychological Warfare unit.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Even in first crosses, the greater or lesser difficulty in effecting a union apparently depends on several distinct causes.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Moreover, the most marked characteristic of the present age is a continual disintegration of the consciousness; more or less deliberately in every province of man's spiritual life the reins are being thrown on to the horse's neck.
— from Aspects of Literature by John Middleton Murry

Not only do the pursuit of game in the interior and the taking of fish on the coast, develop clearly marked general peculiarities of character and life in the two divisions, but the same causes produce grades more or less distinct in each division.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Because the rays of light diverge, in every direction from the candle, in straight lines, and the nearer the object, the more rays will it intercept, as is represented in Fig.
— from First Lessons in Natural Philosophy for Beginners by Joseph C. (Joseph Comly) Martindale

Recent discoveries of the remains of lake dwellings in England have established the fact that in many parts of Europe, and perhaps indeed 17 all over the Continent, man in the Neolithic time formed the habit of living in villages built on piles over the shores of lakes, and that he kept this habit during the Bronze Age, and had not wholly abandoned it at the dawn of the Iron Age.
— from Switzerland by Frank Fox

Again [Pg 152] Ashurbanabal, in a dedicatory inscription giving an account of improvements made in the temple of Ishtar, addresses the goddess as Belit 'lady of lands, dwelling in E-mash-mash.'
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

It is this: many makers of late date in England, Italy, Germany, who had succeeded in producing excellent instruments, and in consequence established their reputation, as they imagined, in a short time after their fame had gone forward to the world, relaxed in their application, and became negligent, under the impression that their name having been once established, their instruments, no matter how indifferent they might be, would be well received.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Such elongation of the cervix is usually found to a greater or less degree in every case of marked prolapse of the uterus caused by injury to the perineum.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

Your brothers will fall sooner or later: death is easy to find.
— from The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by Mór Jókai

171 Bounties on exportation or importation, new taxes on commodities, sometimes by their direct, and at other times by their indirect operation, disturb the natural trade of barter, and produce a consequent necessity of importing or exporting money, in order that prices may be accommodated to the natural course of commerce; and this effect is produced not only in the country where the disturbing cause takes place, but, in a greater or less degree, in every country of the commercial world.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

And, though volumes have been written to teach us how we may best become scholars, orators, courtiers, what not; yet not one leaf do I ever remember to have seen, composed by any capable man, that instructs us in the proper way of getting into this great secret.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd