Gage and Snell tried their best to make friends with Hans Dunnerwust and Barney Mulloy, as these boys were particular friends of Merriwell's, and might be induced to use some influence over him.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

Thomas Coke , a methodist bishop in the United States, died.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

One of them was begun at the very time, when "the indications of a disordered mind had become more decided," and was completed with scarcely a day's intermission of my work at the lunatic asylum, where I subsequently improved my leisure (as far as my shattered health would permit) by zealously engaging in some preliminary studies for a history of modern literature.—It is equally needless to expatiate on my extensive acquaintance, direct and indirect, with academic men and methods both in the United States and in Europe, where within a few years past I spent an entire year in the pursuit of literary and philosophical [Pg 12] studies at two of its most prominent Universities.—
— from Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54 by G. J. (George J.) Adler

It does not make any difference how poor he may be, how out of work, how ragged, how next door to a tramp anybody may be in the United States to-night, he will be 'gifted in prayer' at the result of this convention.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

The family are congregated off to the right, in a kind of stoping where the dirt has been removed, leaving a small room like one meets with in the Gogebic iron mines in Wisconsin and Michigan, back in the United States….
— from Rescuing the Czar Two authentic diaries arranged and translated by James P. Smythe

Yet every detail had been arranged months before in the United States; the mines fell into the sea in accordance with a time-table which had been prepared in Newport before the vessels started for Scotland.
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

The flowers are very small but numerous, of an ivory-white colour; they are more beautiful in the unopened state, when the [Pg 43] two-sepalled calyx for many days compresses the tassel-like cluster of stamens.
— from Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by J. G. (John George) Wood

The largest Stock of Law, Medical, Theological, School and Miscellaneous Books in the United States, is to be found as above, and at the lowest prices for cash or approved acceptances.
— from A Guide to the Virginia Springs Giving, in addition to the routes and distances, a description of the springs and also of the natural curiosities of the state by J. J. (John Jennings) Moorman