We are very anxious the U. S. should extend her jurisdiction over our valuable country, and we are nearly out of patience with the delay.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

There have been in the United States some eight hundred level-premium life companies, only about fifty of which are now in existence.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various

Haggis : The quintessence of all that has been said by all the Presidents, Governors, and Mayors in the United States since Eighteen Hundred Eighty-nine.
— from The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard

At the Utah Station similar experiments have shown that the saving of soil-moisture by cultivation was 63 per cent for a clay soil, 34 per cent for a coarse sand, and 13 per cent for a clay loam.
— from Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe