Write an anecdote that will interest all of them, and cause the conversation between them to be general.
Rejected because, although an extremely able and interesting paper in itself, it is found by experience that this sort of high-science essay requires high people towrite it if it is to have a chance of being read.
Write a short essay showing your points and testing your capabilities.
Allow that I render my homages to this name so illustrious, me who have essayed since so long time to speak and to write the language of that great author.
Now while I go to give Jan his instructions do you write a letter to Ben Isaje, telling him that it is your wish that Gilda should accompany the bearer of your sign-manual.
Write what you like, but for God's sakewrite quickly.
They would take years in telling," he said, "mayhap one day I'll write them down.
I had to write a letter to Ben Isaje, telling him to convince himself that Gilda was safe and in good health, ere he paid the rascal a sum of 3,000 guilders.
What balderdash to write about a man ablaze with reasoning energy and genius of the highest order!
Even if I had thought it desirable, it was hardly possible to write about Nelson without also dealing with Britain's great adversary and Nelson's distracted opinion of him.
He was a German pastor who, at eighty years of age or thereabouts, had travelled forty miles with the object of getting Nelson to write his immortal, name in his Bible.
We talk and write of his wonderful accomplishments on sea and land, as a skilful, brave sailor, but he was more than that.
Nelson, in his clumsy, transparent way, tried to conceal the origin of the child, so he proceeds to write a letter to Lady Hamilton, which I shall quote later on.
If George III yearned for peace as he and his ministers pretended, why did the King notwrite a courteous autograph letter back to Napoleon, even though he regarded him as an inferior and a mere military adventurer?
No person couldwrite such an unconsciously comic lament to a department supposed to be administered with proficiency unless he were borne down by a deep sense of its appalling incompetency.
It puts a severe strain on our imagination to realize how a man could composedly write such a request on the verge of the greatest naval conflict in history.
Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.
I also will writeto them words of request, and offer dignities, and gifts: that they may be with me to aid me.
And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen.
And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.
The Romans write to divers nations in favour of the Jews.
Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.
As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, in the day when thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel, 2:29.
And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write all these words from his mouth.
The prophet denounces his judgment, and causes Baruch towrite a new copy.
I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former words that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda both burnt.
And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what mind you are.
Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.
I do not feel as though I could return to college, or write another scenario, or do another single solitary thing until peace is declared.
Anyway, Ruthie, I'll writeher at once and tell her to begin pulling wires.
I am a leetle afraid, my pretty, that you will have your hands full if you write pictures for red savages to act.
She had, too, a particular topic on which she wished towrite her friend.
She could read and write perhaps better than most young ladies of her age; she knew a smattering of geography, a jumble of history and poetry, but such an amount of bad language and viciousness that we were horrified at her knowledge.
The best plan will be to write to Miss Jefferies and give her a carte blanche to send everything that is right; for we do not mind a little extra expense for such an occasion; do we, auntie?
Here is a first class fox decoy which can be made very easily, write Irving Brown, of Vermont.
I have been waiting for some of the fox trappers of the Red River Valley, says a Minnesota trapper, to write and tell us how they manage to pinch Mr. Reynard's toes.
New trapping methods are constantly being published in that magazine, as experienced trappers from all parts of North America read and write for it.
But if she was a fool she did notwrite the letters to a fool.
You will not add to the poignancy of that reflection by asking me to write down an account of our quarrel in order to perpetuate so deplorable an incident?
Nay, my dear, I feel that as Heaven directed my pen to write that book in order that you might be saved from the fate of my poor Livy, I shall be permitted to help you out of your present difficulty.
Goldsmith laughed, and told Baretti how he had occasion to get rid of Boswell, and had done so by pretending that he meant to write a life of Johnson.
Perhaps you would do me the favour to writedown a clear and as nearly accurate an account as your pride will allow of your quarrel with the Doctor, sir.
The doctor who was in attendance on him had promised to write if he thought it advisable for him to have a change to the country.
I am awaiting with great interest the part which you have yet to write for me in a comedy.
You poets write best of broken hearts when you are sustained by broken victuals.
Did you not tell us that you were about to write a Natural History?
What experience was it urged you to writethose lines?
Scotland, the land where the clergymen writeplays for the theatre.
He had, in addition, his comedy to write for Garrick, and he was not unmindful of his promise to give Mrs. Abington a part worthy of her acceptance.
I myself secured tables on which my pupils were able to write instead of scribbling on their knees; and, as my class was daily increasing in numbers, it ended by being divided into two.
What a problem, if we could only solve it; what a chapter of psychology, if we could only write it!
I should have to write a volume if I would go on setting forth my doubts.
It is that thou bring me to her grave, that I may visit her in the tomb wherein she is and write some couplets thereon.
Then quoth she to the merchant, "Bring me ink-case and paper, that I write thee a letter which shall aid thee on thy journey to Baghdad and enable thee to do without passports.
Quoth the Caliph, "I will write thee a letter to carry to the Sultan Mohammed bin Sulayman al-Zayni, which when he readeth, he will not hurt nor harm thee in aught.
I hear and I obey," replied the merchant; "but first write me a patent, exempting me for ever from paying tithe on my merchandise.
Khatt Sharif"=a royal autographical letter: the term is still preserved in Turkey, but Europeans will write "Hatt.
Thereupon he forthright summoned his secretaries of state and bade them write Sharrkan's patent of investiture to the viceroyalty of Damascus of Syria.
Then he called his private secretary and bade him write a letter to his father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, saying that he had bought him a damsel, who excels in learning and good breeding and who is mistress of all kinds of knowledge.
So, to go on with what I was saying, two years ago, when I came to my senses about her, and before I cared for anyone else, I told her to write if ever I could do her a service.
I feel so much better, and more cheerful, since I sat down to write this.
He can write songs, too, as fast as you can talk nearly, and sings them wonderfully.
He spent another restless day; and by night had persuaded himself that Drysdale's mission had been a complete failure, and that he did not write and kept out of the way out of kindness for him.
So, please do not send it to me, but write and tell me yourself anything that you wish me to know of what you are thinking about and doing.
But I wish you would just write down now what you would have said.
I owe the preacher a good turn for that; I've a good mind to write and thank him.
Do writeto me, dear, and tell me, now, what you think.
Why should he not write to her at once, if they were engaged to be married?
Having owned himself in the wrong, however, there was nothing for it but to write an apology, the composition of which was as disagreeable a task as had ever fallen to his lot.
But I couldn't write in town, I was in such a queer state all the time.
Our hero, on leaving school, having bound himself solemnly to write all his doings and thoughts to the friend whom he had left behind him: distance and separation were to make no difference whatever in their friendship.
Dear Katie, I can hardly bring myself to write it.
You can write and keep accounts, and you'll get on famously.
I write in Asia or Africa, and I do not mention America because so far there have been no finds at all of any of the higher Primates, either of great apes, sub-men, Neanderthalers nor early true men.
He left a book on hawking, which shows him to have been an acute observer of the habits of birds, and he was one of the first Italians to write Italian verse.
People began to write books to be read as well as looked at by ordinary people.
He was the first man to write a Utopia, that is to say the plan of a community different from and better than any {142} existing community.
He seems to have had an intuition that something great was dead in Europe and sorely needed burial, that there was a need to write Finis, overdue.
The clay of this country is very fine; they used it to write upon, and so it is that their inscriptions have been preserved to us.
Some time ago I had an assignment to write up the floral tributes when a prominent citizen had died.
I cannot write connectedly, because I am in love with all those girls aforesaid, and some others who do not appear in the invoice.
As a rule, even when the names of the fathers of the witnesses are given, the scribe is content to write only his title after his name.
At present the data are insufficient and what the metrologists write is only ingenious speculation.
M209) This is not the place to write a commentary on the Code, but there are a few necessary cautions.
The ability to draw up deeds and write letters seems at first sight to have been widely diffused.
The methods of learning to write and the lessons in Sumerian are well described by these authors, and illustrated by numerous extant examples of practice-tablets.
Either it was too well known, or too awful, for the scribe towrite it down.
The only safe statement to make is that from the earliest times a very large number of persons existed, at any rate in the larger towns, who could write and draw up documents.
I used towrite the text around his pictures, captions underneath them, and then words spilled out over the white paper between his six by tens.
I cannot write of the middle-aged man of the Belgians because he has been killed.
Sometimes soldiers gave me the address of wife and mother, to have me write that they were well.
Of course it's nice enough to write letters and send boxes of chocolates by mail, but it's a good deal better to take a stroll in the moonlight and hold hands, eh, Dick?
Sam said he was going to write a letter that night, and finally Tom and Dick agreed to do the same.
I didn't writeto you because I wanted to surprise you," explained Songbird.
The notes from Dora and Grace contained about the same information, and Grace added that she wanted Sam to write to her.
You'll have to write in my autograph album," said another, and the would-be poet readily consented.
If the author of this book can write so luminously of advertising in other respects, I am sure he will yet be able to cast a satisfactory light upon your problem.
I have never greatly loved an author without wishing to write like him.
Till these younger critics have learned to think as well as to write for themselves they will persist in heaving a sigh, more and more perfunctory, for the truth as it was in Sir Walter, and as it was in Dickens and in Hawthorne.
He did not impart these truths without imparting certain tricks with them, which I was careful to imitate as soon as I began to write in his manner, that is to say instantly.
They it is whom I am truly sorry for, and whom I write of with tears in my ink.
But otherwise the situation was not cheerful for me, and I now began trying to write something for publication that I could sell.
People write because they wish to be known, or because they have heard that money is easily made in that way, or because they think they will chance that among a number of other things.
While I writethese lines, the daily newspapers furnish the following paragraph.
It may be, too, that their assumed patrician sensitiveness shrank from entering into competition with the plebeian fellows who had to study hard and write voluminously for a few pennies to keep soul and body together.
The third step in receiving a subscription is to write the name in the proper place on the subscription lists that go to the mailing company every Tuesday night.
At any rate, unabashed he went on to write more epics on Elizabeth, Alfred, Job, and to win himself a doubtful immortality by being pilloried in Pope's Dunciad.
The States, incensed at his presumption, employed Grotius to write their Apology, which he published in 1613.
Bellievre was desired to write to France about it: the Ministry were in no hurry to give him an answer, because they disliked the prince's project.
He gave Grotius so great hopes that he thought he might write to his father, "If I would forget my country, and devote myself wholly to France, there is nothing which I might not expect.
Many strong reasons determined me to write at this time.
This made him write to Baron Oxenstiern on the subject[654].
Grotius judging this behaviour equivalent to a positive denial, wrote to the High Chancellor, that he thought his Excellency should write to the King himself.
What," inquired Mister Cerobie, "shall I write about?
By the way, can you write an insert to a political speech?
I'll be damned if I'll write another speech or be your bartender.
I am enclosing an additional copy for Hess, and ask you to transmit the letter to Hess by messenger, as I do not want to write a letter to Hess for fear that it might be read somewhere.
I think he told me that he would write such a book as he tells here in the foreword.
