New York City and Philadelphia—two strategic ports—were in British hands; the Hudson and Delaware rivers were blocked; and General Burgoyne with his British troops was on his way down through the heart of northern New York, cutting New England off from the rest of the colonies.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

formed diamond, as it quitted the hand of Nature, not yet having got into the hands of the lapidary.
— from Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall

Have you told her our news?" "Not yet; she has been too much occupied with her son to think of anything else.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny

“Because ideas can't get into the heads of negroes, nor yet into the heads of illiterate Irishmen.
— from Gulmore, The Boss by Frank Harris

One of the special objects of my search during a certain June among the hills of northern New York was a nest of the golden-winged woodpecker; not that it is rare or hard to find, but because I had never seen one and had read attractive stories of the bird's domestic relations, the large number of young in the nest, and his devotion and pride.
— from In Nesting Time by Olive Thorne Miller