Which preposition to use with write
I had written to Madame Grevy to ask if she would receive me before I left for Italy.
He was quite proud of that daily record and remembered to write in it on an average of once a week.
There is still more force and "go" about No. 6: it was written on "Wednesday night, past 12," and also in haste.
I'll tell Edith you'll write for rooms.
He had, however, soon the misfortune to be discovered by Balty Mahu, and, in consequence, Veenah is debarred from pen and ink, but contrives to acquaint her lover that their intercourse has been discovered, by a short note, written with a burnt stick.
No doubt, this is as it should be; for, by waiting, I see the incidents more truly, and write of them in a calmer and more judicial frame of mind.
Your correspondent who writes about "The Real Estate of Woman," will be relieved to find that the threatened dearth in husbands can be so readily obviated.
Of one thing, I am certain, that, had it not been for my sister's untiring love and nursing, I had not been writing at this moment.
On his way he wrote from Marseilles to his mother; and, after telling her of the sights and scenes he has witnessed, mentions that he will leave Marseilles "D.V. on Monday for Constantinople".
Your letters clearly showed that you wrote under the influence of an intense emotionan emotion which I can both understand and respect, but which might well make it impossible for you to accord a dispassionate reception to a reply which controverted your own views.
Annihilation is written as the doom of both.
When the proposal to make government paper a legal tender for debts was before Congress, he opposed it with great zeal, writing against it in the democratic journals.
He was never an early riser, worked always very late (said his best despatches were written after midnight), and didn't care about beginning his day too early.
Most of the German music that has been written during the last three centuries is played by the orchestra during these intermissions.
Let writing like a Gentlemanfine appear, But must you needs judge too en Cavalier?
I would not do it were I not accustomed to read and write without the smallest amount of mischief.
This charge does not affect Livy, indeed, for he copied only what others had written before him; but he did not allow his own conviction to appear as he generally does, for he treats the whole of the early history with a sort of irony, half believing, half disbelieving it.
" [Illustration: FACSIMILE OF A PRESCRIPTION WRITTEN BY SIR ANDREW CLARK.]
Nor does Roger Ascham in his Scholemaster, written between 1563-1568 and published posthumously in 1570, concern himself with the purpose of poetry.
Now when they were come up to the gate, there was written over it in letters of gold, "BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER IN THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY.
And Handy Solomon, stretched out, leaning on his elbow, with his red headgear, his snaky hair, his hook nose, his restless eye and his glittering steel clawthe glow wrote across his aura the names of Kid, Morgan, Blackbeard.
" He leaned down to his patient in deep commiseration to tell her that all was wellthat Venice was under no ban, that God's blessing still shielded her churches and her children; but she raised her eyes steadily to his, and the strength of the belief, which he saw clearly written within them, filled him with awe and hushed his speech.
The mere writing down of your lists has probably done much to bring the words written into the circuit of your memory, where you can more readily lay hold of them.
" Anecdotes of the kind are very numerous, for there are few subjects in folk-lore concerning which more has been written than on the divining-rod, one of the most exhaustive being that of Mr. Baring-Gould in his "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages."
It may be well, however, to notice a few points to which he himself thought it worth while to advert in official despatches, written towards the close of his sojourn in the country, and containing a statistical review of the marvellously rapid progress which the Colony had made in all branches of productive industry.