It was once the property of the Revolutionary patriot, John Hancock, and is now in the custody of the Bostonian Society, at the Old State House, in Boston, Massachusetts.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

"Let's go down to the office of the Chief of Police, and, if my conjecture is true, we'll find the people we want on board the 'St. George'—'kill two birds with one stone', as the old saying has it.
— from The Shipwreck A Story for the Young by Joseph Spillman

On the occasions upon which he had personal intercourse with Sir Isaac, and which were necessarily numerous, he endeavoured to learn his opinions on various mathematical subjects, and to obtain some historical information respecting his inventions and discoveries.
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster

Mrs. Sandy had always told Peggie and me about her stately sister at the old Southern home in Queen’s Ferry, and when I gave up the school over at Beaver Ford and told her I wanted to get into an upper class school, or preparatory for college, she said that she would write to her sister in my behalf at Calvert Hall, and, well—I got the appointment.”
— from The Polly Page Ranch Club by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

[30] The knocker from the John Hancock House in Boston and that from the Winslow House in Marshfield are here shown; both are now in the custody of the Bostonian Society, and may be seen at the Old State House in Boston.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

There is no Scotch or English Dissenter––no true friend of religious liberty in Britain or Ireland––who would not make common cause with the Free Church in urging a measure of this character on Parliament, when fairly convinced, by cases such as that of Sutherland, how imperatively such a measure is required.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

He brought me two letters, one saying father is sick and the other saying he is well again.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne