Except in the new region, far up the Hudson, New York shares with Dublin the disadvantage of turning her meaner aspects to her river fronts, though the majesty of the rivers themselves, and the grandiose outlines of the brooklyn Bridge, largely compensate for this defect.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
He had a fine position in a bank here in brooklyn, but I don't think the company he kep' was all that it might have been.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
See Walter Pennold of brooklyn.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander