The Improved Dwellings Association put up its block of thirteen houses in East Seventy-second Street nine years ago.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The labor, he found, kept him from the subconscious dread of what might happen to Beatrice or to himself if either should meet with any mishap.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

Trees and bushes were leafless; from the workshop window one could look right through them, and over other gardens beyond, and as far as the backs of the houses in East Street.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

One by one they hurry in, each striving to displace the foregoing—none staying for an instant,—till the brain reels under the confusion.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

Nevertheless she rang the bell of the house in Eleventh Street at three o’clock.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

“He’s had about the worst bat on the head I ever saw a a man git an’ live, to start with.
— from The Return of the O'Mahony: A Novel by Harold Frederic