York
[jɔːk]
Definition
(noun.) the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose.
Typist: Owen--From WordNet
Examples
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to her children, all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- James, of New York, the latter being probably its real inventor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In this place I will print an article which I wrote for the New York Herald the night we arrived. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Old New York scrupulously observed the etiquette of hospitality, and no discussion with a guest was ever allowed to degenerate into a disagreement. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- New York--New York--but must it be especially New York? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Its first public exhibition was about the latter part of January, 1878, before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, at New York. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In my way to Canada last spring, I saw dear Mrs. Barrow at New-York. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This Rebecca of York was a pupil of that Miriam of whom thou hast heard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- New York's an awfully safe place, he added with a flash of sarcasm. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Roebling, a native of Prussia, born there in 1806, and who died in New York in 1869. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Last night, he said, New York laid itself out for you. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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