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Example sentences for "had written"

  • So the Yankee was published in England just as he had written it,--[The preface was shortened and modified for both the American and English editions.

  • At the end of each day he would read to the others what he had written, to their enjoyment and wonder.

  • He HAD announced himself--six months before; had written out at least that Chad wasn't to be surprised should he see him some day turn up.

  • There had been literally a moment at which it appeared there might be something in him; there had been at any rate a moment at which he had written that he didn't know but what a month or two more might see him enrolled in some atelier.

  • Bascom matrimonial heartbreaks, had written to say that he and his sister-in-law were soon to be together as they used to be.

  • Under the edge of that door he tucked the note he had written.

  • He had written her, pleading to see her and receive his answer.

  • Now she would believe the cowardice was inherent, because he had written her, also--and had run away.

  • For an hour he thought, wrote, tore up what he had written, and began again.

  • I had written, suggesting that perhaps he would like to put up a small library building, as the Adams lot faced the corner where Jean had passed every day when she rode to the station for the mail.

  • He referred to the letter which he had written so long ago in Boston, with its amusing fancy of the Archbishop of Dublin and his Grace of Ponkapog, and declared that, after all, it contained something of prophecy.

  • He went on to recall that Sir Alfred Russel Wallace had written of such things, and cited instances which Wallace had recorded.

  • You know I had written to Georgina last night.

  • Martindale, and a book in which, under his sister's name, he had written that of little Helen.

  • This rendered Martin curious to see what grounds of sympathy the Watertoast Association put forth; nor was he long in suspense, for the General rose to read a letter to the Public Man, which with his own hands he had written.

  • He repeated to himself a phrase he had written in his review: "One feels that one is listening to a thought-tormented music.

  • In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: "Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold?

  • He took up his pen and dipped it in the ink but he continued to stare stupidly at the last words he had written: In no case shall the said Bernard Bodley be.

  • Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.

  • She took up the lines which her own hand had written hardly a minute since, and looked at the ink, still wet on the letters, with a vacant incredulity.

  • She took from the writing-case the long letter which she had written to Norah, and slowly read it through.

  • She put the second letter aside and read the lines which Norah had written: "Ventnor, Isle of Wight, August 24th.

  • The presbytery has lost nothing of its charm, nor the garden its brightness," he had written.

  • Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn It was not until later that Rouletabille sent me the note-book in which he had written at length the story of the phenomenon of the inexplicable gallery.

  • He asked for it in the letter he had written in her own room, on the night of the incident in the gallery, which he left on her desk.

  • I have known a person whom I had never seen before besiege me all dinner-time with asking what articles I had written in the Edinburgh Review?

  • If a paragraph appeared against anything I had written, I found it was ready there before me, and I was to undergo a regular roasting.

  • I used to write a page or two perhaps in half a year; and remember laughing heartily at the celebrated experimentalist Nicholson, who told me that in twenty years he had written as much as would make three hundred octavo volumes.

  • A lot of hunting people, for instance, would not believe that I had written the "Traver's Only Ride" story because they knew I did not hunt.

  • At twenty-eight he had written a book about England and her people, and the book had met with much success both in America and England.

  • A young man in a sweater and top boots met me at the depot and said that I was Mr. Davis and that he was a young man whose life I had written in "There was 90 and 9.

  • He had written a parody on Pope's Essay on Man, entitled the Essay on Woman, and had appended to it notes, in ridicule of Warburton's famous Commentary.

  • The editor is now dead; and, while living, declared that he had been misunderstood, and that he had written in no spirit of enmity to Sir James Mackintosh, for whom he professed the highest respect.

  • Clearly he thought that I should not have had a Jewish grandmother, nor have lived with her from my third to my tenth birthday, and most clearly that I should not have written that which I had written.

  • I kept silence for a moment, then I told her as well as I might, without fever and without melancholy, what I had written and of the Dominican.

  • He had written privately, to say he would arrive almost immediately after his letter.

  • I had written to you, lady, and receiving no answer, I thought you offended at my abrupt departure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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