Still he is not young, and I must not conceal from you, my dear, that I think his health is not over-strong.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I used to draw in school, and after I had worked in the Settlement here in New York, and while I was working down on the East Side, it came over me that maybe I had one talent wrapped in a napkin; and I have been taking lessons in Fifty-seventh Street with the thousand or two young women who do not know how to boil potatoes, but are pursuing the higher life of art.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

By and by he turned again to his wife, and whispered, “I don’t think William’s peace of mind was permanently affected by his romance with your friend; he appeared to be in good spirits the other day when I saw him in New York, and was taking a good deal of interest in the fine arts, I fancied, from his behavior to your little protégée.”
— from Mrs. Farrell by William Dean Howells

“Monsieur de Thou,” said he, “I need you as my second in an hour, on horseback, with sword and pistol, if you will do me that honor.”
— from Cinq Mars — Complete by Alfred de Vigny

They [141] stole horses in New York and sold them in other cities at reduced prices; or they would bring the horses to friends in the country (Highland) and receive payment.
— from The Barrel Mystery by William J. (William James) Flynn

The bills of Pedro Blanco, the notorious slave-dealer at Gallinas, on an eminent Spanish house in New York, and another in London, are taken as readily as cash.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

Two weeks later, on the 15th of September, a little girl, her father and aunt and a violin landed from the Steamship Humboldt in New York and a new life began for Camilla.
— from Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard

You know she is just crazy to break into the swim here in New York, and the Gladwins are the very best of people.
— from Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

You're all settled here in New York, and I don't suppose you want to break up, much, at your time of life, and I've been thinkin' whether you wouldn't like to take the thing.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells