He was certainly a very able man of business, and the wording of his "business" letters fully bears out the idea conveyed by his "business" signatureso to speakthat Dickens was fully aware of his own powers, and that, quite fairly, he did not omit to impress the fact upon other people when he thought fit.

Both the wording and the signature of many of his private letters are simple and unostentatious to a high degree.

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Find more emphatic wording for the ideas thus marred.

Of these the only one that need concern us here is that the wording of a passage may not be abstract and yet be general.

That is, you should steep yourself in the thought and emotion of a piece of writing, and then lay the piece aside until its wording has faded from your memory, when you should reëmbody the substance in language that seems to you natural and fitting.

The Nicene Creed was to them what it was not to the Western Church, their only creed, and the authority of the councils, by which its form and wording were determined, stood far higher in their estimation.

But a manner of speech denoting, if not wording, a recognition of his unswerving loyalty would have accorded better with the estimate I had otherwise formed of her character.

" Such was the wording of the note which was writ in as cramped and villanous handwriting as our hero ever beheld, and which, excepting his own name, was without address, and which possessed no superscription whatever.

I fell to thinking of the excellent wording of the old books in which land is called "real property," or "real estate."

If, according to the wording of the sentence, the ashes of the criminal were to be scattered to the winds, as soon as it was possible to approach the centre of the burning pile, a few ashes were taken in a shovel and sprinkled in the air.

Sometimes the criminals, in consequence of a peculiar wording of the sentence, were taken to Montfaucon, whether dead or alive, on a ladder fastened behind a cart.

The wording of the recommendation in my despatch was, as I soon discovered, ambiguousa grievous defect, of which I make bold to hope I am not very often in public business guilty.

In the wording of the State Statutes he was well read, and he often availed himself of his remarkable memory to the entire discomfiture of an opponent, whose technical error, quickly detected by the watchful ear of Douglas, would be turned against him with great effect.

And again, after the wording of the above article had been slightly changed, and the clause newly numbered, as in the present Constitution, we find another statement most clearly showing to what subject the whole was intended to refer: Saturday, September 15, 1787.

For they were very careful about ancestral customs even though they had raised their arms against their country and abandoned their native shores, and were anxious to perform all necessary acts not merely with a view to temporary demands or contrary to the exact wording of the ordinances.

His pointed and lucid style gave to his printed performances a semblance of cogency which they did not really possess; and his letterseven his shortest noteswere as exquisite in wording as in penmanship.

Those who are familiar with the vanity and punctiliousness on points of etiquette of the chieftains of the Hindoo Khoosh will easily conceive how much depended upon the wording of this letter.

The second hypothesis appears the most probable; for that deeds of violence and cruelty had been committed alternately by the burghers and their foes is an ascertained fact, and that the charter of 1128 was really a work of liberal pacification is proved by its contents and wording.

He remembered the wording of the advertisement, the phrases of the singular correspondenceand wondered.

Their wording was like some trembling, fateful needle of a barometer, pausing, reacting a little, but going down, down, down, indicator of the heart-pressure of Paris, shrivelling the flesh, tightening the nerves.

When I first announced my intention of several years' travel in Europe, I accepted the generously offered letters of friends and acquaintances, and, in some instances, of kind persons who were almost total strangers to me, careless of the wording of these letters and only grateful for the goodness of heart they evinced.

NOTES FOR SONG V. From the wording, this appears to be one of the lost songs of Nezahualcoyotl, either composed by him or sung before him.

Both this and the following are war songs, and have marked similarity in thought and wording.

He thought it well over, and felt assured that very much of the success of such a measure must depend upon the wording of the letter.