I've seen in the factories children of nine years old, frail, rickety, bent and already depraved.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

In his family the old New England custom of New Year's presents was kept up to his last days.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I come over next year to give away the bride, or whenever I come, I shall have the sense to keep the household brigade in ambuscade and not to manoeuvre it on your ground.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Had he confined his observations to the police courts of New York, he might have emphasized that remark and found an explanation of the discovery that “the ratio of prisoners in cities is two and one-quarter times as great as in the country at large,” a computation that takes no account of the reformatories for juvenile delinquents, or the exhibit would have been still more striking.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

" Her cousin, Elbridge G. Lapham, M. C., of New York, says in a letter: "I am persuaded the time is fast hastening when woman will be accorded the exercise of the right your association demands.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

this respect, chargeable with a departure from the celebrated maxim which has been so often mentioned, and seems to be so little understood, how much more culpable must be the constitution of New York?(1)
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And now I've heard,” he says, “that he's workin' at 116 East Blank Street in the city of New York.
— from The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

A citizen of New York called on me and stated that recently, just as the night train was starting from the depot in Canal Street, he handed this same baggage-master a letter containing money, which he asked him to take charge of, not having time to carry it to the post-office.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

The booklet also gives a brief history of the Committees: "In 1938, with the financial assistance of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Council began to organize affiliated discussion groups in a few American cities....
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

While in the S. E. corner of Pennsylvania, and in the S. E. corner of New York it had not begun to rise .
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

S. Adolphus Knopf, M.D.; Professor of Phthisio-therapy at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Associate Director of the Clinic for Pulmonary Disease of the Health Department; Attending Physician to the Riverside Sanitorium for Consumptives of the City of New York, etc.
— from The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts by Margaret Sanger

Burr, Aaron, candidate for the Vice-Presidency (1796), 92 ; on politics in Connecticut, 115 ; carries the city of New York (1800), 115-16 ; elected Vice-President (1800), 118 ; candidate for Governor of New York, 165 ; approached by Federalists, 165-66 ; his duel with Hamilton, 166 ; his intrigues, 172-73 ; his expedition, 173-76 ; his arrest and trial, 176-78 .
— from Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson

At the very time of Donald McLeod's petition, the provincial congress of New York was engaged with the distracted state of its own commonwealth.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

517 North Carolina, Schweinitz , Curtis ; Ohio; New York, Peck , 47th Rep. Edible.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine