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Example sentences for "writ"

Lexicographically close words:
wristbands; wristlet; wristlets; wrists; wristwatch; write; writeing; writen; writer; writers
  1. For things were done in the Midnight Sun that no tongue will ever tell; And men there be who walk earth-free, but whose names are writ in hell-- Are writ in flames with the guilty names of Fournier and Labelle.

  2. His letter is writ in our hearts and there we find it.

  3. But with an instinct that pointed right, they took Adam as a type of the unspoiled man, and they saw writ large in him the possibilities and potentialities of man.

  4. Tis known how the permanent never is writ In blood of the passions: mercurial they, Shifty their issue: stir not that pit To the game our brutes best play.

  5. Of them she learns the lesson of the flesh:- The lesson writ in red since first Time ran, A hunter hunting down the beast in man: That till the chasing out of its last vice, The flesh was fashioned but for sacrifice.

  6. Sir George had been summoned before Parliament for the deed; but the writ had issued against the King of the Peak, and that being only a sobriquet, was neither Sir George's name nor his title.

  7. So the writ was quashed, and the high-handed act of personal justice was not farther investigated by the authorities.

  8. Paston's non-appearance was proclaimed at four successive county courts at Ipswich; and a writ of exigent was granted against him.

  9. Prince submitted to her counsel, and only writ a most submissive and respectful letter to his Majesty, giving his reasons for what he had done.

  10. I know I have not writ to you the Lord knows when, but I waited for something to tell you, and I have now what there was not much reason to expect.

  11. After I had writ this, your brother brought me another letter with a confirmation of all we had heard about Genoa.

  12. Hugh Fortescue, in whose favour the abeyance into which the barony of Clinton had fallen on the death of Edward, thirteenth Baron Clinton, was terminated by writ of summons, in 1721.

  13. But the writ of Summons had been served; Heaven's Messenger could not stay away forever.

  14. Old Court Records Staid Documents, Writ by Hands That Are Still, Are History For Us.

  15. All the great charters of Humanity have been writ in blood.

  16. She made this denial of her civil rights a test case by bringing a writ of error against the State of Illinois in the Supreme Court of the United States.

  17. Carpenter, one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the nation, with a view of obtaining a writ of error from the Supreme Court of the United States.

  18. The right to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, he says, are rights of the citizen guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.

  19. Silver, applied for a writ of ejectment at the land office in Oregon City.

  20. Miss Anthony refused to give bail, and petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus.

  21. Mr. Carpenter prepared and presented our petition for a writ of error, together with the record.

  22. The case came up before the General Term of the Supreme Court, on writ of error.

  23. The marriage was perfectly acceptable to her former husband's relatives, but the guardian was so displeased with it, that he got out a writ of habeas corpus, and demanded of Chief Justice Chapman that the children be remanded to his custody.

  24. Maria writ The letter at Sir Toby's great importance; In recompense whereof he hath married her.

  25. This prophecy was writ in parchment, and hung in a table on one of those pillars, before the civil wars.

  26. Dame Julian writ The Art of Hawking in English verse, which is in Wilton Library.

  27. And this, and the former account he hath writ in a book of miscellanies, which I have seen, and is now reposited with other books of his in the Musæum at Oxford.

  28. But Mr. Thomas Flatman (poet) did affirm, that he had seen those hieroglyphicks in an old parchment manuscript, writ in the time of the monks.

  29. In the life of JOHN DONNE, Dean of St. Paul's, London, writ by Isaak Walton.

  30. To cure the Tooth-Ach: out of Mr. Ashmole's manuscript writ with his own hand.

  31. A tall man, with "doctor" writ large on his silk hat and frock coat, approached Philip.

  32. The next morning I went to Simon at his lodge house, having writ him a note overnight to prepare him for my visit, and there I found him, with all his books and papers ready for my examination.

  33. She had writ her husband's name on it, and now she pressed her lips to it twice, and putting the warm letter in my hand, she turned away, her poor mouth twitching with smothered grief.

  34. You call yourself Judith, yet here I see your name writ Moll.

  35. She was for ever wanting the part of a queen writ for her.

  36. I have heard of that; for my dear girl hath writ about that and nought else in her letters; and though I've no great fancy for such matters, yet I doubt not it is mighty fine by her long-winded praises of it.

  37. Upon this, finding further evasion impossible, the old man turns to bay, and asks upon what grounds she would dismiss him without writ or warrant.

  38. Sextus Empiricus, who lived in the second century, under the Emperor Antoninus Pius, writ ten books against the mathematicians or astrologers, and three of the Phyrrhonian opinion.

  39. When they return the excommunication into the Chancery, there is issued out a writ against the person.

  40. The Crown however at last stepped in to Courtenay's aid, and a royal writ ordered the instant banishment of all favourers of Wyclif with the seizure and destruction of all Lollard books on pain of forfeiture of the University's privileges.

  41. In the summer of 1278 a royal writ ordered all freeholders who held lands to the value of twenty pounds to receive knighthood at the king's hands.

  42. Experience proved to the prelates that few sheriffs would arrest on the mere warrant of an ecclesiastical officer, and that no royal court would issue the writ "for the burning of a heretic" on a bishop's requisition.

  43. Let there be letters writ to every shire, Of the king's grace and pardon.

  44. The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to's holiness.

  45. Then that in all you writ to Rome, or else To foreign princes, 'Ego et Rex meus' Was still inscribed; in which you brought the king 315 To be your servant.

  46. I have writ my name[4470] Without the help of any hand at all.

  47. Yet, for I loved thee, Take this along; I writ it for thy sake, And would have sent it.

  48. I’ve issued a writ for libel against the Herald.

  49. I have issued a writ for libel against the Herald, and.

  50. And finally, the constitutional right in certain cases to suspend the ordinary privilege of the writ of habeas corpus carries with it, of course, an equally constitutional right to make what you call 'arbitrary arrests.

  51. It is better, however, to be in prison and innocent than at liberty and guilty, rememberest thou not what stands in holy writ about St. Peter in prison, and what he said?

  52. How long will men shut their eyes on the great and only true revelation of the Deity, through the miracles and holy writ of nature!


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writ" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blank; caveat; docket; document; dossier; file; form; holograph; injunction; instrument; interdict; mandate; notice; notification; paper; papers; parchment; precept; process; roll; scrip; script; scroll; subpoena; summons; warrant; writ; writing


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    write about; write again; write down; write home; write like; write more; write their; write them; write unto; writes from; writes thus; writing about; writing desk; writing from; writing history; writing letters; writing paper; writing table; written about; written from; written instrument; written language; written promise; written statement; written upon; written work