By 1690 two others were added at Casas Grandes and Janos in Chihuahua and shortly afterward (1695) another at Fronteras in Sonora.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

"Cornwallis conquer'd and distrest, "Sir Henry Clinton grown a jest, "I curse and leave the land."
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 2 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

I lived all my life on a farm in Iowa, till I went up to get a job in Chicago after my father died and I was all alone in the world.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

It is perfectly possible, but not very probable, to find a Gipsy a Jew, in creed, and, for the most part, in point of blood, in the event of a Jew marrying a mixed Gipsy.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

Wid all the gold an' jewels in Chance Along shared amongst us sure we'd never be needin' to hit another clip o' work so long as we live.
— from The Harbor Master by Theodore Goodridge Roberts