I felt that he had divined more of the lesson of Greek art than his one-time love could write down in papers unending.

I am sorry that indolence came upon me towards the conclusion of our journey, so that I did not write down what passed with the same assiduity as during the greatest part of it.

My heart aches to write down here the true record that out of those scores of women only three even smiled or spoke to the little fellow.

Since you are so soon to be a princess, I'll give you leave to write down your song.

" And checking Miss Fanny's intended outburst at the oyster story, Mr. Ralph read on "You ask me, my dear Ashley, to give you some advice, and write down my good wishes, if I have any in your direction.

Before this numerous assembly I swear, in the name of humanity and religion, that to-morrow, at the break of day, I will dissect a corpse, and write down as I proceed, what I observe."

In the lack of solid evidence he had only to write down the accepted story of the origin of things, as drawn from the lips of poetry, legend, or tradition, and it was for Livy to write thus or not at all.

"Child," he ordered, "write down the theme for an essay.

If I were to write down his thought as he walked, it would be with phrase and distinction peculiar to himself and to the boy-mind,"It's the real thing with her; it don't make a fellow squirm like a pin put out at a caterpillar.

I've been here two days now, and I guess I'd better write down what's happened so far, before I forget it.

I have sat here, in the loggia of this Cornish villa, to write down some sort of account of what has happenedGod knows why, since no eye can ever read itand at the very beginning I cannot remember the parson's name.

Schumann fancied that he heard spirit voices rebuking and praising him, and he rose once in the night to write down a theme given him by the ghosts of Schubert and Mendelssohn, on which he afterward wrote variations which were never finished and were the last pathetic exercise of his magnificent mind.

" "Well, you see, this morning Mr. Selby gave us this for our copy: 'As ye have opportunity do good unto all men,' and he told us of a King somebodyI forget whowho used to write down at the end of each day on a slate,if he hadn't done any good to any one,'I've lost a day.'

Just say what you would write down yourself.

M. de Rambure, have you your pencil about you?' "'I have my tablets, Monseigneur.' "'Write down then without loss of time,' said the Cardinal, 'the portrait of this man.'

Were I to ask the youths who are before me what are their designs and expectations concerning their future life, and write down their several answers, what a vast difference would ultimately be found between those answers and the events which would actually befall them!

Mr. Doty, at a children's meeting in the afternoon, asked us whether we would come to help in the missionary work, and asked us to write down the question and think and pray about it, and when we had made up our minds to write an answer underneath the question.

My ink failing soon after, I omitted in my daily memorandum things of an indifferent nature, & contented myself to write down only the most remarkable events of my life.

Blake goes on to write down some of the Proverbs which he collected while walking among the fires of hell.

The misquotation is frequently due to carelessness, the pen of such people has been used to write down such trivial and banal phrases that it goes on writing them out of force of habit.

It is always better to leave out something that is good than to write down something that is not worth saying.

After a cursory examination, merely sufficing for an approximative estimate of its length, I would write down a hypothetical inscription based upon antecedent probabilities, and then proceed to extract from the characters engraven on the stone a meaning as nearly as possible conformed to this a priori product of my own ingenuity.

I was to 'sweep for comets;' and I see by my journal that I began August 22nd, 1782, to write down and describe all remarkable appearances I saw in my 'sweeps.'

" "Well, sir, I can get the acceptance of three friends of ample means" "Do you mean to tell me, Miss Snape, that you will write down the names of three parties who will accept a bill for one hundred pounds for you?"

She was trying to write down, as nearly as she could remember, the words of the letter which Bella had shown her. 'Didn't you tell me about a man called John Fenwick, who painted your portrait?a beastly thing you couldn't abide?