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Example sentences for "recent writer"

  • Toward the close of the Peloponnesian war," says a recent writer, "a change took place in the habits and feelings of the Athenian people, under the influence of which a new school of statuary was developed.

  • A recent writer tells us that in Orkney "there are superstitions likewise associated with the moon.

  • A recent writer, commenting on the Glacial Age, says: "Colder and colder grew the winds.

  • A recent writer says: "When bright comets happen to come very near to the sun, and are subjected to close observation under the {p.

  • Footnote: The occasion and effect of this insurrection, commonly called Shay's Rebellion, are thus described by a recent writer.

  • Note 34: A recent writer says (Contributions towards a History of Prestbury, p.

  • He is also accused, by a recent writer, of having seized the Wealth of the Queen Dowager, because he chose to believe that she had assisted Simnel.

  • A recent writer in the Cornhill says that Lord Ashburnham refuses access to this collection, now in his possession, fearing that its contents may be depreciated so as to lessen its value at a future sale.

  • Or did they honour the light, as the pure ethereal element in contrast to gross terrestrial matter, according to a suggestion of a recent writer[402]?

  • But it entirely fails to explain those peculiarities of the sect, which marked them off by a sharp line from orthodox Judaism, and which fully justify the term ‘separatists’ as applied to them by a recent writer.

  • At each stage of advance in science, says a recent writer, "this joyful overestimate of the possibilities of mechanism becomes a marked feature of contemporary thought.

  • As a recent writer says: "The persistent note of authority which is overheard, rather than heard, in the Epistles is the more impressive because it is only implied.

  • Is any one," asks a recent writer, "ever young in the Borough?

  • Nature," says a recent writer, "will assert her rights over the beings she has made: she avenges all attempts to force or shackle her operations.

  • There is also a type of vase which, according to a recent writer,[471] was used for burning incense.

  • Says a recent writer, "Travellers one and all appear to have been unable to find words to express the feelings with which these sublime remains inspired them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abandon them; arms around; certain definite; distant thunder; dull sermon; half interest; marine engineering; pretty certain; recent date; recent discoveries; recent fiction; recent introduction; recent number; recent origin; recent period; recent species; recent visit; recent writer; recent years; sensuous intuition; sexual feeling; slight rise; small silver; south side; visual perception; whether from