But I told Sally Smith plainly, that I wasn't half so much interested in apple-parers and snow-plows, and the first sewin'-machine and the last one, and steam-engines and hair-pins and pianos and thimbles, and the acres and acres of glass cases containing every thing that wus ever heard of, and every thing that never wus heard of by anybody, and etcetery, etcetery, and so 4th, and so 4th.
"Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician"
Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
I use Topping's driers and Williams's parers; they are satisfactory.
"The Apple"
Various