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Example sentences for "write letters"

  • So to write letters by the post and news of this to my father concerning Tom, and so home to supper and to my lodgings and to bed.

  • So home to write letters by the post to-night, and then again to Sir W.

  • But, as I told you, several of the steerage passengers were taking advantage of the smooth weather to write letters; and, as it happened, our Mystery was no longer engaged in writing.

  • I was interrupted there, and I seem to have done nothing else but be interrupted ever since, either by big bumpy Mrs. Shuster, or some one, or else by big bumpy waves which make me want not to write letters.

  • A Man of Genius may, if he pleases, write Letters in Verse upon all manner of Subjects, that are capable of being embellished with Wit and Language, and may render them new and agreeable by giving the proper Turn to them.

  • She was inclined to believe that but few men of business do write letters willingly, and that, of all men, lawyers are the least willing to do so.

  • Frank, who had no idea of the extent of the preacher's ambition, assured Miss Macnulty that among his multifarious clerical labours it was out of the question that Mr. Emilius should find time to write letters.

  • But I am not sorry to have a day to write letters, and besides I have a box of books to arrange.

  • I was quite reluctant to write letters, or do anything whatsoever, and yet I should surely write to Sir Cuthbert Sharp and Surtees.

  • I had previously determined to give myself a day to write letters; and, as I expect John Thomson to dinner, this day will do as well as another.

  • So back again home, and there to my closet to write letters.

  • So home to write letters late, and then home to bed, where I have not lain these 3 or 4 nights.

  • His mother would miss it, if I didn't write; she thinks she can't write letters.

  • I love to write letters; and my life isn't half full enough yet.

  • Now I would like to know if people did not understand how to write letters in those days.

  • At any rate, both of you will have occasion to write letters, and perhaps you will be a town clerk or justice.

  • I suppose you concluded that you would want to write letters to your sweet-heart some time, and it would be a pity not to use the English language with propriety in such a case.

  • Couldn't Washington and Jefferson, and other great men, write letters correctly?

  • Probably you have all been called upon to write letters of condolence and have found it a very difficult thing to do.

  • Authors can’t write letters,” says Lowell in a letter to Miss Norton.

  • I know the Congressman from Texas here, and I know--I write letters to people in Washington when I want to have something done about something.

  • Occasionally I write letters to Congressmen--if you call that political action.

  • I write letters to the Congressmen and complain.

  • Of course a member of Parliament is too busy to write letters.

  • If I have to write letters to all the newspapers myself, I'll put it right.

  • Everett says that men never ought to write letters.

  • I resolving to rise betimes to-morrow to write letters to London.

  • Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commission for him that Murford solicited for.

  • So to my house to write letters and so to Whitehall about business of my Lord's concerning his creation,--[As Earl of Sandwich.

  • After they were gone my Lord and I to write letters to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very desirous to go because of seeing my wife before she went out of town.

  • My pet, you can't expect a lad of that kind to write letters.

  • I never stop to think when I write letters.

  • But you can imagine why she wanted to write letters to-day instead of riding again.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back and; bade adieu; books printed; broad sense; hand down; inquired whether; left none; level country; lose sight; reserve fund; salt beef; share the; small supply; thee have; while above; write about; write again; write down; write home; write letters; write like; write more; write their; write them; writes from; writes thus