The Marchioness changed the motion of her head, which had not yet left off nodding, and suddenly began to shake it from side to side, with a vehemence which threatened to dislocate her neck.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Gray afterwards became assistant to Professor Torrey in the New York Medical School, and in 1835 he was appointed Curator and Librarian of the New York Lyceum of Natural History.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, and of the Lyceums of Natural History of Troy and Hudson, N. Y.; Memb of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Albany Institute at the State Capitol, Albany, and a Res.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

I find the soul and seed Of it is not your lack or need, Or even merely vulgar greed.
— from Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke

I had heard at the Academy of Music in New York, little or nothing by him when the overture to "Lohengrin" thrilled me as a new revelation.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

Mr. D. H. Barnes, of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, reports that the shells sent to him from the mouth of the Columbia, and with which the Indians garnish their pouches, are a species of the Dentalium, particularly described in Jewett's "Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Boston at Nootka Sound."
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

An official letter of the New York Lyceum of Natural History expresses their thanks for recent donations.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

[Pg 31] The following regular employees were in the Post-office Department and Postal Service on July 1, 1922: Post-office Department proper 1,917 Post-office inspectors 485 Clerks at headquarters, post-office inspectors 115 Employees at United States Envelope Agency 10 First Assistant Postmasters: First class 834 Second class 2,808 Third class 10,407 Fourth class 37,899 51,948 Assistant postmasters 2,730 Clerks, first and second class offices 56,003 City letter carriers 39,480 Village carriers 1,111 Watchmen, messengers, laborers, printers, etc., in post offices 3,063 Substitute clerks, first and second class offices 11,283 Substitute letter carriers 10,765 Special delivery messengers (estimated) 3,500 Second Assistant: Officers in Railway Mail Service 149 Railway postal clerks 19,659 Substitute railway postal clerks 2,419 Air mail employees 345 Fourth Assistant: Rural carriers 44,086 Motor-vehicle employees 3,177 Substitute motor-vehicle employees 447 Government-operated star-route employees 64 Total 252,756 The following classes or groups are indirectly connected with the Postal Service in most instances through contractual relationship, and take the oath of office, but are not employees of the Post-office Department or the Postal Service: Clerks at third-class offices (estimated) 13,000 Clerks at fourth-class offices (estimated) 37,899 Mail messengers 13,128 Screen-wagon contractors 201 Carriers for offices having special supply 349 Clerks in charge of contract stations 4,869 Star-route contractors 10,766 Steamboat contractors 273 Total 80,485 [Pg 32] THE POST-OFFICE IN NEW YORK List of New York City postmasters from 1687 to date : William Bogardus April 4, 1687 Henry Sharpas April 4, 1692
— from The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office by Thomas C. Jefferies

And when he had drawn me on deck, “That man,” says he, “will carry sail till your hair grows white; but never you let on, never breathe a word.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson