On the other hand, Buddhistic literature early made use of the Āryā metre, which, though so popular in classical Sanskrit poetry, is not yet to be found in the Sanskrit epics.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
It was useless to prolong the discussion: everybody knew the melancholy fate of the few gentlemen who had risked their clean linen in municipal or state politics in New York.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
William Penn wrote in his Accounts that in 1683 coffee in the berry was sometimes procured in New York at a cost of eighteen shillings nine pence the pound, equal to about $4.68.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
1683—Coffee is sold publicly in New York.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Sue , produced in New York, 235 .
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
But in order to compare this with the median entering age (14.9) of the 1,033 pupils reported by King [21] for the Iowa City high school, or with the median entering age (14.5) of 1000 high school pupils in New York City, as reported by Van Denburg, [22a] it is necessary to reduce these medians to the same basis of age classification.
— from The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Francis Paul OBrien
For a column about schools printed in New York there is a page printed in Boston.
— from Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various
On general principles, it was highly attractive—Americans, as she knew from experience, could command all that was worth having there, with, on the whole, a less expenditure than was necessary to keep up the same position in New York.
— from The Relentless City by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Indians may be poor, but so are several persons in New York and other large cities.
— from The Seaside Sibyl; Or Leaves of Destiny: A Fortune Teller in Verse by Anonymous
Cleveland had fought the spoils politicians in New York, and had taken counsel of Carl Schurz after his election as President.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
That meant that he would have to go back, without doubt: for the sweater was a brand-new one, of brilliant Australian wool, and specially purchased in New York for the winter-sports.
— from Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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