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to its present uptown location at
In December, 1908, the business moved to its present uptown location, at the northwest corner of Eleventh Avenue and Forty-third Street, occupying a six-story building which was doubled in size in 1917.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

the inner platform until Larkin and
Allen and O'Brien, and [pg 61] their attendants, having reached the top of the stair, waited on the inner platform until Larkin and the rest of the attendant warders and officials came up.
— from The Dock and the Scaffold The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell by T. D. (Timothy Daniel) Sullivan

the interesting papers upon Liverpool a
A Subscriber says , ‘The writer of the interesting papers upon Liverpool a Few Years Since has fallen into an error, which I wish to correct.
— from Liverpool a few years since: by an old stager by James Aspinall

too its pocket Utopias less attractive
But Balzac's fiction has, too, its pocket Utopias, less attractive and less invigorating than Madame Dudevant's, and in his most realistic portrayals there are not infrequently dream-scapes of the fancy.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton


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