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New York

noun

The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center. Synonyms: Greater New York, New York City.

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies. Synonyms: Empire State, New York State, NY.

One of the British colonies that formed the United States.

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... Fliedner visited the New York Synod, and, in an English discourse, described the character and aims of Kaiserswerth, and commended the newly founded institution at Pittsburg to the sympathy and aid of the German Lutheran Church in America. No further results were reached, as the synod contented ...

— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft

... to answer these questions we must go as far back as the year 1834. At that time Mr. Guille—who is a Guernseyman by birth—was but a boy of sixteen, and had been two years in America. He was serving his apprenticeship with a well-known firm in New York, and he enjoyed the privilege of access to a very extensive library in that city, founded by a wealthy corporation known as The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. The pleasure and profit which ...

— Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands • John Linwood Pitts

... a record of marriages of Wallace County, New York, and Locke finally found an entry that read, "Peter ...

— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... and dragged back to hopeless bondage. Consequently, through this deplorable failure, Samuel A. Smith was arrested, imprisoned, and was called upon to suffer severely, as may be seen from the subjoined correspondence, taken from the New York Tribune soon after his release ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... had said that her name was now Mrs. Slater, and that she lived in New York, having removed there from Hilton only a few years previous, seemed nothing loth to accept her friend's invitation, and it was arranged that Miss Ludington should send her carriage to meet her at one of the Brooklyn ferries the day following. Miss Ludington ...

— Miss Ludington's Sister • Edward Bellamy

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