And what was more, she said that a nice young lawyer had just moved into our house and had the flat below, and she would go and get him.
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train

I like that thought of yours about the house, too; in order to suit the 'spirit' of the New York institutions, it would seem that a New York landlord should build on wheels, that he may move his abode to some new estate, when it suits the pleasure of his tenants to buy him out."
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

I like that thought of yours about the house, too; in order to suit the 'spirit' of the New York institutions, it would seem that a New York landlord should build on wheels, that he may move his abode to a new State, when it suits the pleasure of his tenants to buy him out."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Disgusted with their shortsightedness, the prime minister, who was wiser than the rest, and never for a moment supposed that a noble youth like Anjah could have become this deformed and withered thing, whose ugliness no cloak of gold could conceal
— from The Yule Log: A Series of Stories for the Young by Georgianna M. Bishop

I went over twenty year ago come June as servant to a New York lady and stayed there for a year, but I didn't like it, so I come home agin."
— from In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown