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"Central park" Quotes from Famous Books

... icy cold of the day gave me an excuse for getting my cabby drunk in the guise of kindness. Him safely disposed of in a drunken stupor, I drove his jaded steed back to town, earned fifteen dollars with him before daybreak, and then, leaving the cab in the Central Park, sold the horse for eighteen dollars to a snow-removal contractor over on the East Side. It was humiliating to me, a gentleman born, and a partner of so illustrious a person as the late A. J. Raffles, to have to stoop to such miserable doings to keep body and soul together, but ...

— Mrs. Raffles - Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman • John Kendrick Bangs

... any chances," answered Mrs. Carson. "I once heard of a lion getting loose from Central Park in New York City and ...

— Out with Gun and Camera • Ralph Bonehill

... as the weather of the New York October is apt to be. The month proved much milder than September had been at Magnolia. They were not very far from Central Park, and they went for whole afternoons into it. They came to have such a sense of ownership in one of the seats in the Ramble, that they felt aggrieved when they found anybody had taken it, and they resented ...

— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... not authentic. LOUIS NAPOLEON never played marbles in Central Park, nor took his little Nap in the vestibule of ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 • Various

... a present of underclothing, and on the following Sunday the two boys went to Central Park in the afternoon, Mike so transformed that some of his street friends passed him without recognition, much to ...

— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger

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