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Sentences starting with author

Author of all our bliss! [5]
Author writing, jacks? [6]

Sentences ending with author

Forty and seven years it is since William Wordsworth first appeared as an author. [6]
A well-known writer, who had spent some weeks at Arrowhead Village, was generally suspected of being its author. [6]
Do you know whether this gentleman is Charles Wrexell Allen, or whether he is the author? [9]
All the chances were that Mr. Maurice Kirkwood was the author. [6]
When those conditions were fulfilled, the control of the property reverted to the author. [4]
The Literary Gazette was uncertain as to whether it was safe to praise an unknown author. [14]
It is the very book for you to publish; there is a fortune in it, and I can put you in communication with the author. [5]
The book before us is made up from papers published in "The Athenaeum," with additions by the author. [6]
It is not too much to say," she added archly, "that I made a sort of archangel out of the author. [9]
At that earlier time, Willis was by far the most prominent young American author. [6]

Short sentences using author

The author remained troubled. [5]
Scott is my favorite author. [6]

Sentences containing author two or more times

Shakespeare of Stratford was the author of the Plays and Poems, but the author of the Plays and Poems could not have been a butcher's apprentice. [5]
Consider first the author, and I mean the author, and not the mere craftsman who manufactures books for a recognized market. [4]
For the indefinite and improbable event of a poor author, hardly yet recognized as an author, coming into position, into an income (for that was the weak point in his aspirations) that would not be laughed at by the millionaire. [4]

More example sentences with the word author in them

Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. [10]
One author per year produces a book which can outlive the forty-two-year limit; that's all. [5]
An author whose writings are like mosaics must have borrowed from many quarries. [6]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
And this side, with all reverence and patriotism, the author has tried to take. [9]
The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
Among the students who followed his instructions were two Englishmen: one of them, John Locke, afterwards author of an "Essay on the Human Understanding," three years younger than his teacher; the other, Thomas Sydenham, five years older. [3]
A chief pleasure which the author of novels and stories experiences is that of becoming acquainted with the characters be draws. [6]
I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in his tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description. [5]
Although our author was somewhat far advanced, and Mr. Prescott had not yet collected his materials, Irving renounced the glorious theme in such a manner that Prescott never suspected the pain and loss it cost him, nor the full extent of his own obligation. [4]
If a paper was rejected by the Secretary, it did not come before the Committee, but was returned to the author, if he sent for it, which he commonly did. [6]
Elizabeth of Rumania was one of the most loved and respected of European queens and an author of distinction. [5]
Every day he was less and less in love with the law as it was practiced, and, courting reputation, he would much rather be a great author than a great lawyer. [4]
On inquiring, I was informed by the editor of that paper, through the medium of my friend General Whitesides, that you are the author of those articles. [7]
Ameni, who too, was close behind the heart, started too and looked round on the author of this hideous laugh. [10]
The celebrated author was a little surprised, because in the books the young struggler had needed but one lift, apparently. [5]
All the author wants is to be understood. [4]
In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
They are so vividly portrayed that we are convinced the author must have known them in that great world with which he was so familiar; we should not be surprised to meet any of them in the streets of London. [4]
Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless. [2]
Here the author used to sit for hours, weaving histories out of the casual incidents passing under his eye, and the occupations of the busy mortals below. [4]
Whoever had stirred up and organized the hordes, whoever was the author of that ticket of the discontented, had not counted upon the sleet. [9]
I did not trust my own judgment as to those letters, but I took them to an author whose name is known wherever English is spoken, but which I will not mention. [9]
It is a truism to say that when the reader perceives that the author can compel his characters to do what he pleases all interest in them as real persons is gone. [4]
Its author continued to win a more or less precarious livelihood doing miscellaneous work, until March, 1866, when he was employed by the Sacramento Union to contribute a series of letters from the Sandwich Islands. [5]
This is just to the author, fair to the public, and, above all, valuable to the intellectual sanity of the critic himself. [4]
Is it extravagant to speak of a tendency to make the author merely an adjunct of the publishing house? [4]
The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
The letter is to Mr. George Iles, author of Flame, Electricity, and the Camera, and many other useful works. [5]
His sole contributions to it were a gratuitous review of the book of an American author, and an explanatory article, written at the desire of his publisher, on the "Conquest of Granada. [4]
I said that to have them know that I was the author of it would be enough for me. [5]
I enclose it to give you a laugh; it professes to be written by an Author jealous of Authoresses. [14]
The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. [5]
The only thing to do was to have Kingsley removed to a mud-cell, and not let him know the author of his temporary misfortune and this new indignity. [11]
They call her to breakfast with a salvo of artillery; and usually when it thunders she looks up expectantly and says "come in....." The monument to the author of "Gloverson and His Silent partners" is finished. [5]
It is service to an author to have a lawyer. [5]
It is manifest to all honest minds that if an author is entitled to own his work for a term of years, it is equally the duty of his government to make that ownership perpetual. [4]
This study always throws a flood of light upon the meaning of the text of an old author, the same light that the reader unconsciously has upon contemporary pages dealing with the life with which he is familiar. [4]
The invention of this plan overstrained the author that is plain, for he straightway shows failing powers. [5]
We cannot do this if we see the author set them up as if they were marionettes, and take them to pieces every few pages, and show their interior structure, and the machinery by which they are moved. [4]
The attention of this great scholar and influential man had been attracted by Brugsch's first Egyptological works, which he had commenced before he left school, and his keen eye recognized their value as well as the genius of their author. [10]
The scope of this book has not permitted the author to introduce the peasantry and trading classes which formed the mass in this movement. [9]
The conclusions of this author, as well as those of Gratiolet and Aeby, concerning the brain, will be discussed by Prof. Huxley in the Appendix alluded to in the Preface to this edition. [1]
I could not think the author an Englishman. [11]
I cannot but think that this situation would be on a juster footing all round if the author returned to the old practice of limiting the use of his property by the publisher. [4]
I can hardly think Gordon had ever looked at his figures, though he names their author, when he wrote the captious and sneering article which attracted so much attention in the pages of the "Edinburgh Review. [3]
As a general thing, I would not give a great deal for the fair words of a critic, if he is himself an author, over fifty years of age. [6]
The manuscript had therefore been put in the graveyard of manuscripts, from which there is commonly no resurrection except in the funeral progress of the manuscript back to the author. [4]
To his mind there was nothing horrible or incongruous in the idea that a well-known author should be a defaulter. [9]
I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne. [4]
These sayings and the thought of the author of The Sybarites stifling below with his mouth to an auger-hole kept us in a continual state of merriment. [9]
Carlton's half of the story was that he did not accept Mark Twain's book because the author looked so disreputable. [5]
The Athenaeum and the Spectator gave short notices, containing qualified admissions of the power of the author. [14]
It was exactly the sort of letter an author likes to receive, critical, perfectly impartial, and with entire understanding of his purpose. [4]
The editor of the Sangamon Journal gave me to understand that you are the author of an article which appeared, I think, in that paper of the 2d September instant, headed "The Lost Townships," and signed Rebecca or 'Becca. [7]
When I am the reader, and the author considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me quite a nice compliment--but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. [5]
The party had the privilege of idling through this ancient quarter of New Orleans with the South's finest literary genius, the author of 'the Grandissimes. [5]
They require that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable. [5]
One looking through the pages of contemporary periodical literature is apt at any moment to light upon pieces, and sometimes upon series of them, which the author never took the trouble to collect. [4]
The positives, on the other hand, declared the gifted young author to have found a manner of treatment of social life entirely new. [9]
The demands of the lecture-room account for many peculiarities which are characteristic of Emerson as an author. [6]
At last, when the horrors of starvation were staring him in the face, he laid his sad case before a celebrated author, beseeching his counsel and assistance. [5]
They have read the Bible ten times as much as they ever read any medical author. [6]
It is that the author who produced that book has had the profit of it long enough, and therefore the Government takes a profit which does not belong to it and generously gives it to the 88,000,000 of people. [5]
These require that the author shall: 12. [5]
They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. [5]
It must please the author of "Ramona" to know that it continues in the old ways; and I trust she is undisturbed by the knowledge that the rage for change will not long let it be what it now is. [4]
In the former the author could perhaps "prove" every incident he narrates, and produce living every character he has attempted to describe. [4]
A correspondence between the author and the dramatist followed, leading to a friendly arrangement by which the latter agreed to dispose of his version to Mark Twain. [5]
So it appears that, in the opinion of this critical class, the author of the 'Woodnotes' and the 'Humble Bee' ranked about eighth in poetical ability. [6]
Do I understand that you are an author? [6]
The author agreed that the publisher should have the exclusive right to publish his book for a certain term, or to make and sell a certain number of copies. [4]
The fact is that the judge is about to become famous far beyond the confines of Harwich; for he, and none other, is the author of the Consolidation Bill itself. [9]
The brisk reply that Rice's letters concealed with a show of parliamentary knowledge a "festering mass of misstatements the author of whom should be properly termed the 'Unreliable," fixed that name upon him for life. [5]
Mr. Amory says that Prescott expressed himself very decidedly to the effect that an author who had written such descriptive passages as were to be found in Mr. Motley's published writings was not to be undervalued as a competitor by any one. [6]
Still I think that it caught and held some phases of Egyptian life which the author of 'Said the Fisherman' might perhaps miss, since the observation of every artist has its own idiosyncrasy, and what strikes one observer will not strike another. [11]
Besides you assume that I am the author of some certain article which you have not pointed out. [5]
For the reason that his own work was so different, and perhaps because of his fondness for the author, Clemens always greatly admired the books of Howells. [5]
And let me thank you for a little sport I had in a quiet way as the author of The Sybarites. [9]
Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities of failure in what he has undertaken. [6]
It was a tale which the author of it may possibly have completed satisfactorily, and if he really had that good fortune I would like to know what the ending was. [5]
I would therefore take the liberty of asking whether you are the author of said article, or any other over the same signature which has appeared in any of the late numbers of that paper. [7]
I was not surprised at those who read "Jane Eyre" being deeply interested in it; but I hardly expected that a book by an unknown author could find readers. [14]
If the author succeeds in any degree, his spirit rises to another attempt in the hope of a wider recognition. [4]
Should the author succeed in making the picture of the remarkable woman, who was so differently judged, as "lifelike" and vivid as it stamped itself upon his own imagination, he might remember with pleasure the hours which he devoted to this book. [10]
Beware of the struggling young author, my friends. [5]
She felt a strong suspicion that "the Sachem," as the boat-crews used to call him, "the Recluse," "the Night-Hawk," "the Sphinx," as others named him, must be the author of it. [6]
He is a striking example of an author who is loved. [4]
Besides, if the stranger were the author of the paper, he certainly would not choose a sheet of water like Cedar Lake to perform the last offices for him, in case he seriously meditated taking unceremonious leave of life and its accidents. [6]
And will you stop in England, and bring home the author of "Counterparts" with you? [6]
They are the spontaneous outflow of young hearts easily excited to gratitude for the pleasure which some story or poem has given them, and recognizing their own thoughts, their own feelings, in those expressed by the author, as if on purpose for them to read. [6]
I think this sort of critical eulogy is more damaging even than that which kills by a different assumption, and one which is equally common, namely, that the author has not done what he probably never intended to do. [4]
Macaulay died too soon--for none but he could mete out complete and comprehensive justice to the insolence, the impertinence, the presumption, the mendacity, and, above all, the majestic ignorance of this author. [5]
You draw life, society and men no more correctly than the author of 'A Sweet Apocalypse' would draw you. [11]
That he did so possibly led the author of his life to exhibit a somewhat hostile attitude towards his hero. [4]
They were not smart; they ought to have sent only one highwayman, with a double-barrelled shot gun, if they desired to see the author of this volume climb a tree. [5]

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