David Johnson was a sailor, who came from Norway to New York as a boy, locating in New York in 1832, securing work as a press-feeder.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

” “This is simple enough,” said the count; “but look, is not your correspondent putting itself in motion?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?" "I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Although Jim Burden and I both live in New York, and are old friends, I do not see much of him there.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

500 93,580 Dawson Construction Co. Nassau General Hospital No. 39 Long Beach, Long Island, N. Y. 1,500 25,000 Day labor.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

“But Lockhart is not yet proved to be a thorough scoundrel.
— from The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

She'd been livin' in New York, so she said, and had come back to revisit the scenes of her childhood.
— from The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

H2 anchor CHAPTER III Happy Days with Mrs. Botta—My Busy Life in New York—President Barnard of Columbia College—A Surprise from Bierstadt—Professor Doremus, a Universal Genius—Charles H. Webb, a truly funny "Funny Man"—Mrs.
— from Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn

He had not been back long in New York before he met all his old friends.
— from The Adventures of a Boy Reporter by Harry Steele Morrison

"But," replied Pauline—and Olivia thought that both her face and her tone were a shade off the easy and the natural—"since he came I've been living in New York and haven't stayed here longer than a few days until this summer.
— from The Cost by David Graham Phillips

I've seen him lay down the law to some of the biggest lawyers in New York, and they took it like little lambs.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

“The bag, known to be from that late train; the paper, known to have been bought late in New York!
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

But Lotze is not yet done with the problem of validity, even from his own standpoint.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

One of the reasons why he objected to being left alone with his future father-in-law, Mr. J. Preston Peters, was that Nature had given the millionaire a penetrating pair of eyes, and the stress of business life in New York had developed in him a habit of boring holes in people with them.
— from Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse