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Example sentences for "literary work"

  • With a style not always rigidly grammatical, but always impressive and distinguished, he shone in many branches of literary work.

  • He has shone in many branches of literary work.

  • Mr. Jowett seized the occasion to repeat his advice that she should find recreation in literary work.

  • The man most familiar with my literary work is Dr.

  • Cuyler himself says that he considered his chief literary work to have been the preparation of over 3,000 articles for the leading religious papers of America.

  • To the great value of this sort of literary work, several of our distinguished authors have already testified.

  • On coming to Morristown, having resigned his ministerial charge at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, he devoted himself mainly to literary work, and with General H.

  • Indeed the three books--as representing three totally distinct fields of literary work--were a great treat.

  • My literary work cannot be snubbed; and it goes into drawing-rooms where the author would be snubbed.

  • On his return from his European trip he was admitted to the bar, but instead of seeking law-practice he devoted his time to literary work.

  • The time came when his firm became bankrupt, and he was obliged to take hold of literary work in earnest for a livelihood.

  • Upon opening this fine volume one perceives instantly that he has before him a piece of literary work done in that spirit of literary conscientiousness of which we have been speaking.

  • He passed among his school fellows for one of bright mind, and he excelled in literary work.

  • He was a poor clerk at a pitiful salary, struggling to increase his income by literary work in his spare time, with a dangerous appetite for alcohol, and an insane sister to take care of.

  • Would Johnson deserve immortality simply on the merits of this, one of his best pieces of literary work?

  • Incidentally he did an occasional piece of literary work.

  • He talked as if he was pretty familiar with that piece of literary work, and nobody would suppose that he never had read it.

  • When he came to estimate the value of literary work he seemed no less hard to satisfy.

  • This sudden uprise of journalism produced a remarkable change in the conditions of literary work, and offered chances to many who would previously have been dependent on individual patronage.

  • He died in 1874, having been incessantly occupied on literary work of all kinds (chiefly connected with French and English history) for the last half century of his life.

  • From the time of his betaking himself to literary work, he seems to have been wholly given to study, and to the contemplation of natural beauty.

  • Turgot's literary work is not extensive, and it is not distinguished by its style.

  • He was in an acutely creative condition; and, moreover he was passing from one phase of literary work to another, deeper, more intimate, more permanent.

  • In the other letter he wrote: “I am too worried about various things to settle to any kind of literary work in the meantime.

  • Such recognition is especially a help to one whose work is so exclusively personal and solitary as the kind of literary work, which I feel I can do best, must be.

  • The relations of a maker of a dramatic version of a literary work or of a literary version of a dramatic work, would follow the same rule as in the case of a translator.

  • I get through an immense deal of literary work in the course of the day.

  • This is, in criticism, the attitude we should all seek to preserve; not only in that, but in every branch of literary work.

  • Here is literature, look you--not "literary work.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could gather; court room; curious story; east coast; enabled them; frozen meat; here shown; literary composition; literary criticism; literary education; literary fame; literary history; literary language; literary life; literary merit; literary pursuits; literary society; literary study; long train; much elongated; much land; particular proposition; poor sinner; present their; thou doest; turned under