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Example sentences for "letter from"

  • The next day I got a letter from him, asking me to correspond with him.

  • Two days after the New York managers were there, I got a letter from James E.

  • I got a letter from one of the officers in the capitol, telling of the joints run in the capitol building and patronized by the members of the legislature.

  • On the train from Medicine Lodge to Attica, the deputy sheriff had some man to give this girl a letter from him, telling her to meet him at Wellington.

  • Just as Eugene came downstairs, stretching himself and yawning, a commissionaire handed him a letter from Mme.

  • Here," cried the old man, "here is a letter from her.

  • At seven o'clock that evening Therese came with a letter from Delphine.

  • Not long after this we got a letter from Jim.

  • Jim got a letter from Jeanie, all the way from Melbourne, where she'd gone.

  • The only time he seemed to brighten up was once when he got a letter from Jeanie.

  • There came a letter from her, saying that her uncle's people wanted her to spend the winter there.

  • After Lapham went to his business in the morning the postman brought another letter from Irene, which was full of pleasant things that were happening to her; there was a great deal about her cousin Will, as she called him.

  • THE morning postman brought Mrs. Lapham a letter from Irene, which was chiefly significant because it made no reference whatever to the writer or her state of mind.

  • It was a letter from Kirke, and contained assurances of speedy relief.

  • The question was soon settled by a letter from James, which announced his defeat and his arrival at Brest, [709] At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.

  • As the new King of England could not be at Edinburgh during the sitting of the Scottish Convention, a letter from him to the Estates was prepared with great skill.

  • Dear Poet, I think you will be surprised to receive a letter from a little girl whom you do not know, but I thought you would be glad to hear that your beautiful poems make me very happy.

  • I have had a letter from Mrs. Thaw with regard to the possibility of doing something for these children.

  • My Dear Mr. Wade:--I have just received a letter from my mother, telling me that the beautiful mastiff puppy you sent me had arrived in Tuscumbia safely.

  • A little later he received a letter from Will, presenting our grievances and advocating our cause.

  • Shortly afterward he was much pleased by a letter from William T.

  • A few days after this episode Will received a letter from Julia, telling him that mother was ill, and asking him to come home.

  • The following morning came a letter from Ivery in which he ardently pressed for a meeting.

  • And then suddenly I got instructions in a letter from Blenkiron.

  • Next day in London I found a letter from Peter.

  • Only since yesterday, when I received a letter from her, a very friendly letter.

  • You received a letter from me," he stammered, "last night?

  • Here is a letter from Clemmens of Brassing tied with the will.

  • He carried with him a letter from Hill to the Sheriff of Argyleshire, Sir Colin Campbell of Ardkinglass, a respectable gentleman, who, in the late reign, had suffered severely for his Whig principles.

  • Letter from Sancroft to Lloyd of Norwich April 2.

  • He was admitted into the closet, delivered a letter from Temple, and explained and enforced the arguments which that letter contained, concisely, but doubtless with clearness and ability.

  • A letter from Prior, containing the good news, was delivered to James Vernon, the Under Secretary of State, in the House of Commons.

  • I heard no letter from my master since I wrote him Imogen was slain.

  • I have a letter from her Of such contents as you will wonder at; The mirth whereof so larded with my matter That neither, singly, can be manifested Without the show of both.

  • I received a letter from him, the dear fellow, in which he even asked me for some small service, which, in fact, I rendered him.

  • Let me see: with regard to Porthos, I received a letter from him, too.

  • Dora Milvain had written a second time, and more recently had come a letter from Maud; but in replying to them she could not give a true account of herself.

  • About six weeks ago I received a letter from a lady who referred to my advertisements, and said she had the manuscript of a novel which she would like to offer for my opinion.

  • She had a letter from one of those young ladies this afternoon.

  • All through these weeks she longed for a letter from Glenn.

  • Aunt Mary, here's a letter from Glenn," said Carley.

  • Charley, the herder, had one of his queer spells the other day, and swore to me he had a letter from you.

  • Last night I received a letter from my agent, stating that he had found the man--that he was in a sad state of destitution, and that he was ready to give his evidence.

  • Alice saw him first, and ran in, exclaiming, "Mother, I do believe Frank has got a letter from father.

  • To cap the climax of their happiness, the afternoon mail brought a letter from Mr. Frost, in which he imparted the intelligence that he had been promoted to a second lieutenancy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different matter; dumb show; human invention; letter addressed; letter came; letter copy; letter dated; letter from; letter home; letter which; letter writing; letter written; letters and; letters patent; letters sent; letters were; letters written; many islands; more accurately; necessary connexion; neither the; pickled peppers; seating herself; suffered from; three large; undoubtedly true