Perfect illumination is only writing made lovely; the moment it passes into picture-making it has lost its dignity and function.
Whereas the right way of setting to work is to make themselves first mistresses of the art of writing beautifully; and then to apply that art in its proper degrees of development to whatever they desire permanently to write.
During the last week Wilson has been adroitly endeavoring to get the Allies into the stage of note writing and peace discussion with an only partially beaten and entirely unconquered Germany.
At last we found him sitting in the kitchen with his gas mask on making his reports, writing in comfort.
I suppose you know the writing well enough to feel sure this came from your noted uncle, sir?
This was what he read in a rather crabbed hand, though the writing could be read fairly well: "To Whom it May Concern; Greeting!
Take it yourself, and see," replied the other, holding out the discolored and wrinkled sheet on which the writing was still plainly to be read.
I received a wound in our last skirmish; not a very severe one, but it put an end to my writing for some time.
In writing these simple words, Raynal's hard face worked, and his mustache quivered, and once he had to clear his eye with his hand to form the letters.
The shot had burst through his canvas, struck a table on which was a large inkstand, and had squirted the whole contents over the despatches he was writing for Paris.
And leaving the other staggered and confused by this sudden blow, he retired into Dujardin's tent, and finding writing materials on a little table that was there, sat down to pen a line to Josephine.
I received a wound in our last skirmish; not a very severe one; but it put an end to mywriting for some time.
Do you know sometimes when I see the fellows writing their letters it gives me a knock here to think I have no one at all to write to.
I was promoted just before this last affair, but had not time to tell you; and my wound stopped my writing till now.
Last night in writing to a friend in New York I uttered the most disloyal and incendiary statements.
I announced my intention of writing to Salemina, left behind in London with a sprained ankle, and determined that the missive should be saturated with local colour.
To dinner, and after dinner till 10 at night in my study writing of my old broken office notes in shorthand all in one book, till my eyes did ake ready to drop out.
So to my office till late writing letters, and so home to my wife to supper and bed, where we have not lain together because of the heat of the weather a good while, but now against her going into the country.
So to my office writing letters, and then home and to bed, weary of the pleasure I have had to-day, and ashamed to think of it.
The first of these came to our knowledge while we were revolving the contents of this chapter, and before we had commenced writing it.
We are not writing in the interest of any special theory, nor in the spirit of partisanship; but with an earnest desire to make the truth appear.
At this writing "The Central" is from six to seven times larger than when first opened; and there lunch in its rooms, daily, nearly two thousand persons.
There was one of hers, cunningly addressed to me in a stranger's writing that I opened inadvertently; but I at once perceived the trick and had the strength of mind to throw it in the fire unread.
Fortunately, Sir Ralph was engaged inwriting letters and other business for some time after breakfast, and Headland, finding Julia alone, invited her to go into the grounds where they could talk without fear of interruption.
Headland had been for some time writing in his room after Harry had left him, when the latter returned, and told him he would find Julia in the grounds.
Notwithstanding all the general had said, Sir Ralph felt so greatly dispirited, that, writing to Lady Castleton, he gave her no hopes of Harry's having escaped.
After dinner Miss Jane gave May her first writing lesson.
I like to do them much better than those ugly things," said Maiden May, and she was spared the task of copying the pot-hooks and hangers, and was allowed to learn writing more according to her own fancy.
The master gave me lessons in mathematics and navigation, and the purser taught me writing and arithmetic, so that though I was still berthed for'ard I had advantages which even the midshipmen did not possess.
But no writing came that day nor the next, nor the next, although the Medium protested that every attention should be bestowed on the refractory slates.
When the sounds indicating the writing process had ceased, I endeavored to pull the slate away from under the table, but the Medium resisted my effort, and by powerful exertion jerked the slate out toward himself.
Generally, however, when thewriting is thus exhibited, it is in answer to a spoken question, and the reply is written by the Medium in his lap and the slate turned over before it is placed on the table.
The Medium declared that when writing appears upon the slate in her lap she feels a shock, but no other sensation.
Writing was produced in similar manner on two other slates without the Committee detecting the manner in which it was produced.
Under the same conditions our colleague, Mr. Sellers, produced writing for us very satisfactorily.
By certain private marks, adroitly applied, the same member noted the fact that the slate on which the writing was exhibited was not, as the Medium represented it to be, the same slate which had been taken from the table.
The page was blotted, the writing obliterated, by rusty stains of the nature of which he could be in no doubt.
I am writing this last page another day, for yesterday the sun came out after the shower and I went out with Aunt Barbara.
You know that you're coming back within three months, and we shall be writing letters all the time, and Tideshead isn't like a strange place.
I have been talking with Aunt Barbara about it, and we have a grand plan for the writing of a new book, and having some friends of mine come here too, and for the doing of great works.
I am getting a good bit of writing done with the only decent stylographic pen I ever saw.
It was a very interesting bag, with a dressing-case fitted into it and a writing case, all furnished with glass and ivory and silver fittings and yet very plain, and nice, and convenient.
I had got my writing-desk on the bed, and was writing to my mother, to whom I had already despatched two telegraphic messages, but as yet received no reply.
Time went on and on till I wanted but a few months of twelve, and my lessons were all but dropped, as my mother's mornings were passed either in letter-writing or in interviews with her lawyer.
She admitted no one, not even the doctor, and started at last with only a few words of adieu inwriting for the Countess.
The writing looked an English hand, and the language was English.
The boy then began with his right (his unwounded hand) to imitate writing with a pen on paper.
While this conversation inwriting was passing, Hassan received a summons from Delì Pasha, whom he found in his salamlik on the first floor.
I must have a pink crepe georgette, a pale, pale blue--just as I'm writing this there flashes to my mind one of those old Memory Gems I learned in school on the hill.
Writing her letters and doing ever so many kind things for her.
So if you'll take care of the writing to David for me I'll be glad.
In some places the ink had faded, and the writing was illegible.
The writingbore the name of Juana Hernandez, the mother of the deceased, an old lady then living in the house of the mother of the padrecito.
They loosened the cords from his wrists, and an usher who stood near with writing materials placed them before him on the scaffold.
Writing materials shall be brought to the prisoner, and he will write his confessions; after that we shall see.
The duke, exhausted by talking, and by the effort of writing the letter, sank back on his straw.
Writing laboriously with his legs curled round the chair and his head on the table.
He went after him and delivered to Joel the writing sent by the stranger.
He devoted the hours to writing study, finding recreation in solving the most difficult problems in geometry, and in investigating chemistry and other scientific subjects of practical utility.
When he was writing this letter, already had one half of the cannon and ammunition of the army been conveyed by the fort, and were safely and rapidly proceeding on their way down the valley.
I am agitated alike with the rapture ofwriting to you, and with the impossibility of expressing the feelings which I cannot distinctly unravel even to myself.
I remember writing to you some weeks since that I would come to London Little did I know of the weakness of my own mind.
I know that in writing to you, you will not be contented if I do not say a great deal about myself.
DEAR, EMILY,--Business of great importance to the country has, prevented my writing to you before.
Writing things and reading things were not the same as doing things, and himself primarily a man of action, doing things was alone comprehensible.
Also, he devoted himself to the endless writing of plays which never got beyond manuscript form, and, though Daylight only sensed the secret taint of it, was a confirmed but temperate eater of hasheesh.
One might as well be writing of the city life of this day, so copious are the materials.
Defoe, writing what he had learned by conversation with those who could remember this evil time, speaks of strange extravagances on the part of those who were infected.
We are not writing a history of London, otherwise the rise and growth of the City companies would form a most interesting chapter.
Servants stood and sat about a certain pillar to be hired; scriveners sat about another pillar writing letters for those who required their services; clergymen in quest of a curacy or vicarage gathered at another pillar.
Perhaps inwriting the numerals the numbers got multiplied by ten--Roman numerals are hard to manage.
Ben is but lately out of prison, where he was cast for writing reflections on the Scottish nation.
Their language is monosyllabic, theirwriting is hieroglyphic, and these facts perhaps account for the scant progress made by their civilization in modern times.
An advance in writing consisted in representing pictorially objects which it was wished to designate.
If prudence is indicated by a serpent, strength by a lion, and lightness by a bird, we here at once recognize writing properly so called.
The first forms of writing were mere mnemonic signs.
One of the most curious forms of mnemonic writing has been met with both in the Old and New Worlds; it consisted in joining little bundles of cord of different colours, in which were tied knots of various kinds.
In spite of the difficulties presented by the reading and writing of the Chinese character, China is doubtless the land in which primary instruction is most widely spread.
This last form of writing is known as the symbolical or ideographic.
And yet this is not writing in the true sense of the word, which does not exist until the conventional signs, of which use is made, correspond with the words or signs of the language spoken, and can actually replace the language itself.
The workmen and the peasants are capable of writing their own letters, reading the government bills and proclamations, and making notes of their daily business.
Language and writinggave birth to human associations, and later on, to civilization, by which they were transformed.
It is in this way that their modern writing was gradually formed, an emblematic writing which does not correspond with the spoken language, the one solitary exception to the rule among all civilized nations.
Moral penalties are also inflicted; a writing fastened to his back holds up the idle schoolboy to public contempt.
A note of request follows, but in writing notes for your own particular instances, you must remember that each note has to be adapted to the occasion in hand.
The first and last names of the man writing the letter must be given in full, and if there is a middle name, either the initial or full spelling may be given.
But to wait a week or two before acknowledging a letter of introduction, and then writing to explain, is to show lack of good breeding and ignorance of the laws of good conduct.
The duty ofwriting necessary notes and seeing callers also devolves upon some intimate relative or friend.
His order is worth quoting: "In no part of our work does the demand for the human quality apply more than in the matter of writing letters.
The act of writing the answer involves either the acceptance or the regret, as the case may be, and the present tense should be used.
But the true art of letter-writing rests with you--and your own personality.
In writing regrets, it is always more courteous to give the reason for being unable to accept, but it is not important to do so unless one really wishes to.
The writer knew a college girl who, when she came home, decided to wait before writing and see how many of her friends cared enough for her to write to her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
