"York" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dollars to supply with powder the army which alone stood between them and a sudden taking off. Yet the significance of the act was not yet understood by the colonies at large, for a few days later the assembly of New York voted military escorts both to Washington and to the royalist governor, who happened to arrive on the ...
— The Siege of Boston • Allen French
... for her at home. Mrs. Parlin was not willing to say what it was; but it had been sent by Aunt Madge from the city of New York, and must be ...
— Dotty Dimple Out West • Sophie May
... of his plays to the Licenser, it is doubtful that as much would have survived. The contentious Macklin had reason for zealously guarding his manuscripts, with such provincial theatre managers as Tate Wilkinson at York ...
— The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir • Charles Macklin
... known then what I know now, my country-seat would be located somewhere in central Illinois or western Oregon; but at that time my knowledge of Hawkins extended no farther than the facts that he resided a few doors below me in New York, and that we exchanged a kindly smile ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... Augustin, Paris. Born at Mirecourt in 1827, removed to Paris in 1844. Miremont has made several excellent Violins, copies of Stradivari and Guarneri. He was for some years in New York, but returned to Paris and died at ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart
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