41 collocations for writings

Hawley and Gull, following immediately in rear of their leader, sent the table, with its load of books and writing materials, over with a crash, threw the chairs into different corners of the room, and were about to scatter the contents of the bookcase over the floor, when Allingford suddenly burst into the room, and stood glaring round like an angry lion.

My purpose in writing this letter is to accept in good faith your expressed wish for a better understanding between two peoples who have long been on friendly terms with one another, and to contribute toward this end by removing, at least so far as we two are concerned, one serious misunderstanding which now exists.

The Chicago Times said that if Buntline had actually spent four hours in writing that play, it was difficult for any one to see what he had been doing all the time.

In the hope of remedying this state of affairs Wagner devoted several years to writing essays, in which he explained his aims and ideals for the benefit both of performers and listeners.

He was a very amiable old barrister, a fast talkerso fast that he never stayed to pronounce his wordsand of an ingenuity that ought to have been applied to some better purpose, such as the making of steam-engines or writing novels, rather than defending thieves.

ON A PAINTED FACE ON WRITING AN ARTICLE ON A CITY

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"Why don't you take to writing books, if you can express yourself so much to the point?"

Poh!' and Mistress Pauncefort flounced again into Lady Annabel's room, with a face of offended pride, knocking the books about, dashing down writing cases, tossing about work, and making as much noise and disturbance as if she had a separate quarrel with every single article under her superintendence.

He contrived to observe in his writing a scrupulous and realistic fidelity and appropriateness to the conditions in which the story was to be told.

A man who owed to his wit and writings the reputation, as well as the fortune, he acquired, pretending to divest himself of human nature to such a degree, as to have no consciousness of his own merit, was the most absurd piece of vanity that ever entered into the heart of man; and of all vanity, that is the greatest which masks itself under the appearance of the opposite quality.

He then proceeds to inform us, that he sometimes does a little in poetry still; but that, of late years, he spends most of his time in writing historiesfrom which he has no doubt that he will one day or another acquire great reputation.

Beginning his book with the assumption that Hamilton was the first to conceive the idea, of "the Union of the People of the United States,"an assumption which we can by no means admit, though supported (as we learn from a foot note) by the opinion of Mr. George Ticknor Curtis,the author proceeds "to trace in his life and writings the history of the origin and, early policy of this GREAT REPUBLIC."

A PERSONAL NARRATIVE BY ROBERT LANSING WITH ILLUSTRATIONS CONTENTS I. REASONS FOR WRITING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE II.

Pupils ought not to write notes because note writing interferes with the rights of others.

I neither read, write, teach, learn, nor do anythingunless indeed revising visiting books and writing invitations is to be called something.

Lord John Russell also was against his writing the Life of Byron.

Drury-Lane replies;"] [Footnote 11: "On his own works with laurel crowned, Neatly and elegantly bound, For this is one of many rules With writing Lords and laureate fools, And which forever must succeed With other Lords who cannot read, However destitute of wit, To make their works for bookcase fit, Acknowledged master of those seats, Cibber his birthday odes repeats.

His writings soon made him known to the court and town, yet it was neither to the savour of the court, nor to that of the earl of Rochester, that he was indebted to the nomination the king made of him, for the writing the Masque of Calypso, but to the malice of that noble lord, who designed by that preference to mortify Mr. Dryden.

I answered that I could have no verbal explanations on the subject, to which he replied that he had suggested the writing a note on the subject, but that the minister had declined any written communication.

I adjure you to attempt the epic, or do something more ample than the writing an occasional brief ode or sonnet; something "to make yourself forever known,to make the age to come your own."

He then insisted on his writing down the purport of their conversation; and when he had done, made him affix his signature to the paper, and urged him to keep it for the remainder of his life.

This is the side of Racine's writing that puzzles and disgusts Mr. Bailey.

But we find in some recent writing a qualified recrudescence of the spasmodic manner, with a touch of euphuism thrown in.

A man who owed to his wit and writings the reputation, as well as the fortune, he acquired, pretending to divest himself of human nature to such a degree, as to have no consciousness of his own merit, was the most absurd piece of vanity that ever entered into the heart of man; and of all vanity, that is the greatest which masks itself under the appearance of the opposite quality.

41 collocations for  writings