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Example sentences for "anonymous letter"

  • This evening was left at the Infant Orphan-House an anonymous letter, containing a sovereign for the Orphans, with the letters C.

  • By the first delivery this morning I received an anonymous letter, containing 5l.

  • II were left 3 rings, a brooch, and a pair of ear-rings.

  • Orphans, if needed; else the whole to be disposed of to the Lord's ministering servants.

  • There could be no doubt, in the mind of anyone who had the slightest knowledge of the science of graphology, that the Professor had written an anonymous letter, warning his successor against thieves.

  • I resorted to an anonymous letter, begging you to be upon your guard.

  • This is an anonymous letter which I received this morning," said he.

  • Never have you committed a piece of folly without my being immediately informed of it by an anonymous letter.

  • He called for pen and paper, and forgetting that no situation can excuse the mean cowardice of an anonymous letter, wrote in a disguised hand the following lines to M.

  • It is generally agreed that an anonymous letter should be treated with silent contempt, and cast aside as the malicious lies of a coward who dares not say to a man's face what he secretly commits to paper, and forces upon him.

  • When man writes an anonymous letter he is in want of money; when woman writes one she is in want of a sensation.

  • After all, it was an anonymous letter, and nothing is more vile.

  • You accuse me of writing an anonymous letter of that caliber?

  • I repeat it was unsigned; it was an anonymous letter.

  • An anonymous letter is so quickly written.

  • She saw him traversing Europe on the receipt of an anonymous letter, to reach that woman's side twenty-four hours sooner.

  • Now in theory there is nothing easier than to despise and disregard an anonymous letter.

  • But in practice an anonymous letter, unless the recipient at once guesses with certainty the identity of the writer, is the only clue to what may contain the germ of some ugly plot, or conspiracy to harm or injure the innocent.

  • But try as he might he could not get that odious, absurd, anonymous letter out of his mind!

  • The letter is an anonymous letter--a vile attempt to injure Sir Percival Glyde in my sister's estimation.

  • The body was identified the day after I had seen it by means of an anonymous letter addressed to his wife.

  • Mrs. Glenarm had, it appeared, received an anonymous letter, on the first day of her arrival as guest at the house of a friend, residing in the neighborhood of Perth.

  • The object of the conference was to find means of discovering an anonymous letter-writer in Scotland, who had presumed to cause serious annoyance to Mrs. Glenarm.

  • But, your Honor, when an anonymous letter is full of lies and slanders, I respectfully submit that it is a piece of cowardly malice, which the law ought to punish with the utmost severity.

  • Anonymous letter-writers should be held in contempt, but one ought to know how, on occasion, to make the best of advice given in that way.

  • About the same time I received an anonymous letter, the writer of which told me that I should be better occupied in taking care of myself than in thoughts of chastising the abbe, for I was threatened by an imminent danger.

  • What a risk I run, and all because you thought you guessed an anonymous letter.

  • I would swear that that big letter he read with a sigh was an anonymous letter.

  • He had reached this point in his intrigues when he had yielded to the pleasure of writing an anonymous letter, and thus increasing his embarrassment.

  • As for poor Bella Bruce, a dove's bosom is no more fit to rebuff a poisoned arrow than she was to combat that foulest and direst of all a miscreant's weapons, an anonymous letter.

  • A young lady, a friend of mine, had an anonymous letter, telling her that one she loved and esteemed was unworthy.

  • She opened it; it was a thing new to her in her young life--an anonymous letter.

  • Was your friend so weak as to believe an anonymous letter?

  • Surely you don't imagine that I would stoop to write an anonymous letter.

  • An anonymous letter," repeated Josephine from the next room.

  • Genevieve Singleton got an anonymous letter in the evening mail and she is upstairs now crying in her room.

  • You have shed that poor man's blood; and you have sent an anonymous letter to my son's wife.

  • And, lest the true origin of all these mishaps should be doubted, each annoyance was followed by an anonymous letter.

  • Having frequently met him when attending mass, they rashly wrote him an anonymous letter, giving him a rendezvous in the garden of the Tuileries.

  • An anonymous letter reached a friend of the D'Anglades, coming from a man who was about to turn monk, being torn by remorse, which gave him no rest.

  • Khan Beg had refused to pay a sum promised to one of his subordinate helpers, and the latter had written the anonymous letter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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