The South Cove extended from what is now Batterymarch Street to near the North Battery, at the foot of Fleet Street, curving inward as far as Kilby Street and near the old State House, with creeks extending towards Spring Lane, Milk and Federal Streets.
— from Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. (William Willder) Wheildon

For would that I myself had such a son, And not that one slight helpless girl I have!—
— from Poems by Matthew Arnold

They walked about for an hour or more, after that, and then took up their station as near the old State House as they could.
— from The Dare Boys of 1776 by Stephen Angus Cox

An old man who lives near there, grumbles because the artists come and paint his cottage and broad, and take away pounds’ worth of sketches, and never think of sending him a picture in acknowledgment.
— from The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by G. Christopher (George Christopher) Davies

For would that I myself had such a son, And not that one slight helpless girl I have— A son so famed, so brave, to send to war, And I to tarry with the snow-hair’d Zal, 181-13 My father, whom the robber Afghans vex, And clip his borders short, and drive his herds,
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester