and so it was formed, but by our silence acknowledge that it never yet entered into the heart of man to conceive how the Almighty Creator laid the foundation of the world.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

I could pay for it..." "There are no servants here at all," he said, "and there is nobody you could pay more than you are already paying.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Almost everything I had was on my back, but just the same I borrowed a little trunk of my sister, so as to impress New York with the fact that I had as many clothes as any visitor from the West.
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

"Suppose you save your wages this summer and try it next year when we start up the trail, just to see how it will work."
— from Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories by Andy Adams

The arguments centered around such issues as: (1) whether the interest on the debt should have been cumulative during the War between the States, (2) whether Governor [133] Walker had greatly over-estimated the potential resources of Virginia in considering the capacity of the ability of the people to pay, (3) whether the payment of a debt primarily because the honor of a state is involved is a major factor in an economic world, (4) whether the Federal government had regarded the State of Virginia as "conquered territory" and hence should assume the ante-bellum debts of this "conquered territory," (5) whether the debt itself should be reduced in all fairness because of the severe war property destruction in Virginia and because one-third of Virginia's entire state area had been reduced by the creation of West Virginia as a separate and permanent state, (6) whether Virginia had been forced by the Federal government to have the status of Military District No. 1 from 1865 to 1870 and hence would the state be held responsible for debts incurred during this period, and (7) whether local state government debts should be paid before payment should be made to outside debtors such as those in New York and London.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

Jared, who was working as a stenographer and typewriter in New York, belonged to my troop.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal by John Henry Goldfrap

A meeting of the board of directors of the Union Pacific Company was held soon after this in New York.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

As surely as one quarter of us are still of the blood of the twenty thousand Puritans who sought the wilderness between 1618 and 1640, so surely are there ideals not yet risen above the horizon that will inspire Americans in the generations to come.
— from The Old World in the New The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People by Edward Alsworth Ross

“Not for these things, O Ann Veronica, have you revolted,” it said; “and this is not your appropriate purpose.”
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

About that time two young men, Tomaschewski and Golubok, of New York, started a theatre in New York.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener