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Example sentences for "writes from"

  • On the 26th he writes from Lahore:-- I mentioned to you that Sir F.

  • He writes from time to time, though I only send short dry notes by way of answer; but he seems determined to regard them as proofs of friendship.

  • Barante[30] writes from St. Petersburg saying that there is great feeling against Madame de Lieven, on account of her long stay in France.

  • He writes from India in 1870 to a friend, whom he had advised upon a prosecution for heresy, saying that he saw clearly that we were drifting towards voluntaryism.

  • Much set up by his stay in the Isle of Wight, he writes from Shanklin on April 11 to Sir E.

  • He writes from Laguna:--] From all that people with whom we meet tell me, I gather that the usual massive lies about health resorts pervade the accounts of Teneriffe.

  • In 1680, Madame de Villars, the wife of the French Ambassador, writes from Madrid, that such was the state of affairs there, that her husband thought it advisable that she should return home.

  • In 1650, Sir Edward Hyde, writes from Madrid, 'there is an universal stop of all pensions which have been granted formerly.

  • In July 1665 he writes from Paris to his father, 'The lecture of plants here is only the naming of them, their degrees in heat and cold, and sometimes their use in physick; scarce a word more than may be seen in every herball.

  • I am none the worse for my journey [he writes from York], rather the better; so Clark is justified, and I should have failed in my duty if I had not come.

  • A friend, who is versed in the subject, writes from Washington: "The fact is, that nothing could be worse managed than the fiscal concerns of the department.

  • From autumn till spring he writes from six to seven hours a day.

  • He writes from early in the morning until the late hours of the afternoon.

  • When fairly launched in a prose composition, he writes from two to four hours a day, seldom five.

  • A month later he writes from Duns to Mr Horne in regard to some specimens which he wants for a course of lectures to be given to working-men at the Museum of Science and Art during the winter.

  • On 29th May he writes from Edinburgh:-- Since my return from France I have been driven from post to pillar, doing my best to clear off arrears.

  • In September he writes from Norham an affectionate letter to Dr Grossart, expressing longing for a “haver,” and giving news of his glacial work.

  • He writes from Syracuse, where he had gone to take the defense for himself in the libel suit: “Was little Captain Isaac Roosevelt one of the bewildering number of small Revolutionary leaders who had their photographs taken with me?

  • Again on October 18, having apparently been able to return for a brief visit to his family, he writes from Niagara: “I was able to get a top berth and retired for the 31st time in two months to spend the night on the railroad.

  • Bracci's next letter bears out the supposition that he writes from inference, and not from knowledge.

  • He writes from Freiburg; "You have no idea what an impression my Letters from Paris have made in Germany.

  • I have seen the emperor, that soul of the world," he writes from Jena.

  • On the 7th of September he writes from Strasburg: "The first French cockade I saw was on the hat of a peasant who passed me in Kehl coming from Strasburg.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being obliged; chemical fertilizers; chronic nephritis; cotton paper; each circuit; government coalition; heeled boots; incredibly short; materia medica; next summer; poor young; pretty good; public trust; reading desk; separate trees; shall answer; should write; skin disease; small chamber; somewhere about; wagon wheel; writes from; writes thus