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See Peter Ross and William Smith Pelletreau, A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to
As you travel along the roads you see the white tomb-stones, group after group, some far, and some near
Actor and manager William ("Billy") Mitchell (1798-1856) popularized the burlesque theater (also known
It was a small, white shell. —by modern folks Turtle-hill.
colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and density, with shells, large boulders or a pure white
reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime performances circa 1840–1860, see William
We hove in sight of the steeples and white-paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted
It was a small, white shell.; Montauk Point Light, finished in in 1797 and not 1795, as Whitman writes
With their superb white horses—the rims of the dash-boards arching over like the necks of serpents—and
The firm fine-grained meat, white as snow, and of indescribable sweetness, of a good-sized blue-fish,
Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively
Compositor; a typesetter. the flashing of the white bones in the sunlight, and the ornamental flourishes
very voracious creature; so voracious that, instead of a bait, we fasten a piece of bone, or even a white
Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively
—And many 2 a time again approached he to the coffin, and held up the white linen, and gazed and gazed
The Croton Reservoir was demolished in 1899 and replaced by the New York Public Library in 1911 (William
The tall white spire, the prolific tracery and ornament, and fret-work, make one wonder and ask how much
Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter, from Its Foundation to the Present Time [London: William
are tenacious of the place, and the places, from the brown sand of Napeague Beach, far east, to the white
East New York, spread out as flat as a pancake—Cypress Hills Cemetery, with its white-painted tower,
According to Sir William Jones, "Vyasa, the son of Parasara, has decided 4 that the Veda, with its Angas