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Sentences starting with howells

Howells mournfully, and without words, hitched himself to Bishop and me and supported us out of the room. [5]
Howells wrote: "I wish you could understand how unshaken you are, you old tower, in every way; your foundations are struck so deep that you will catch the sunshine of immortal years, and bask in the same light as Cervantes and Shakespeare. [5]
Howells and Clemens were corresponding regularly again, though not with the frequency of former years. [5]
Howells would go well as my deputy. [5]
Howells and Aldrich used it as their half-way station between Boston and New York, and every foreign notable who visited America made a pilgrimage to Hartford to see Mark Twain. [5]
Howells was always urging him to send something to the Atlantic, declaring a willingness to have his name appear every month in their pages, and Clemens was generally contributing some story or sketch. [5]
Howells was moved to use the story in the. [5]
Howells was willing to risk it, and that the result was only amusing instead of tragic is the best proof of their friendship. [5]
Howells had begged to be allowed to see the story, and Mrs. Clemens was especially anxious that he should do so. [5]
Howells had recommended them. [5]

Sentences ending with howells

I have cut your articles about San Marco out of a New York paper (Joe Twichell saw it and brought it home to me with loud admiration,) and sent it to Howells. [5]
Mrs. Clemens wrote you a letter, and handed it to me half an hour ago, while I was folding mine to Mr. Howells. [5]
Last week through visitors also--the only ones we have had --Dr. Root and John Howells. [5]
You ought to try to get into the same establishment with Howells. [5]
Clemens, however, appears to have had considerable time for writing, as we gather from the next to Howells. [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]
It would be seven years more before Mark Twain would return to the river, and then not with Howells. [5]
He decided to send this to Howells. [5]
Well, I have read-up, now, as far as you have got, that is, to where there's a storm at sea approaching,--and we three think you are clear, out-Howellsing Howells. [5]
Use your own pleasure about it --I mainly (that is honest,) suggest it because I am seeking to make matters pleasant for you and Mrs. Howells. [5]

Short sentences using howells

Will Mrs. Howells let you? [5]
You don't know Howells. [5]
Howells was more hopeful. [5]

Sentences containing howells two or more times

W. D. Howells spoke of me as first of Hartford, and ultimately of the solar system, not to say of the universe: You know how modest Howells is. [5]
The idea of sending Mr. Howells, with his sensitive nature, upon such a repulsive er--" "Oh, Howells won't mind it! [5]
He had begged Howells to go with them, but Howells, as usual, was full of literary affairs. [5]
It had been hoped that W. D. Howells would join the Canadian excursion, but Howells was not very well that autumn. [5]
When I got back from Howells old to Howells young I find him arranging and clustering English words well, but not any better than now. [5]

More example sentences with the word howells in them

There, now, Can't you say-- "In a letter to Mr. Howells of the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain describes the reception of the new comedy 'Ali Sin,' and then goes on to say:" etc. [5]
In February, Howells wrote: "If you have got any comfort in regard to our play I wish you would heave it into my bosom. [5]
The more Clemens wrote about the river the more he wished to revisit it and take Howells with him. [5]
M. Howells had written that he would be glad to help out in the reading of the proofs of Huck Finn, which book Webster by this time had in hand. [5]
Meantime Howells had written his Atlantic notice of Tom Sawyer, and now inclosed Clemens a proof of it. [5]
Clemens would naturally write something about Bermuda, and began at once, "Random Notes of an Idle Excursion," and presently completed four papers, which Howells eagerly accepted for the Atlantic. [5]
Howells, Did you write me day-before-day before yesterday, or did I dream it? [5]
Clemens also, that winter, met William Dean Howells, then in the early days of his association with the Atlantic Monthly. [5]
I don't know whether she has written Mrs. Howells or not--I only know she was going to--and will yet, if she hasn't. [5]
It doesn't rain when Howells is at work. [5]
It was November when Howells finally fell under the baleful influence of the machine. [5]
If I find we can go, I'll try to get a stage box and then you and Mrs. Howells must come to Parker's and go with us to the crucifixion. [5]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
William Dean Howells was in those days writing those vividly realistic, indeed photographic stories which fixed his place among American men of letters. [5]
Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
Of one such visit Howells wrote: "In the good-fellowship of that cordial neighborhood we had two such days as the aging sun no longer shines on in his round. [5]
Joseph Twichell, who, unlike Howells, had no scruples about Mark's 'Elizabethan breadth of parlance. [5]
Howells, beset by uncertainties, playfully tried to put the responsibility upon his wife. [5]
To Howells, Mark Twain wrote the adventures of this athletic and strenuous exponent of the gospel. [5]
Mrs. Clemens's eyes troubled her and would not permit her to read, so she requested that the Yankee be passed upon by soberminded critics, such as Howells and Edmund Clarence Stedman. [5]
He unburdened himself to Twichell and to Howells, after a period of suffering. [5]
Before I get to the higgledy-piggledy point, as Mr. Howells suggested I do, I want to thank you, gentlemen, for this very high honor you are doing me, and I am quite competent to estimate it at its value. [5]
There they telegraphed to Redpath and Howells that they would be in Boston that evening. [5]
It was addressed to Mrs. Clemens, but was really intended for Howells and Twichell and the others whom it mentions. [5]
Clemens wrote again to Howells, this time with less anguish. [5]
His own letter to Howells, later, probably does not give the real reason of his failure, but it will be amusing to those who recall the erratic personality of George Francis Train. [5]
In the letter to Howells which follows we get another glimpse of Mark Twain's philosophy of man, the irresponsible machine. [5]
Clemens himself confessed to Howells that He wished, when it was too late, that he had destroyed a number of them. [5]
Howells, always willing to help, visited the phonograph place, and a few days later reported results. [5]
The month following this last date he succeeded William Dean Howells as the contributor of the Editor's Study. [4]
It was while they were eating this soldier fare that Clemens--very likely abetted by Howells --especially urged the great commander to prepare his memoirs. [5]
He proposed that they devote the month of October to the work, and inclosed a letter from Mallory, who owned not only a religious paper, The Churchman, but also the Madison Square Theater, and was anxious for a Howells play. [5]
In one of them Mr. Howells let fall some chance remarks on the tendency of modern fiction, without adequately developing his theory, which were largely dissented from in this country, and were like the uncorking of six vials in England. [4]
They had "cracked their sides" laughing over its construction, as Howells once said, and they thought the world would do the same over its performance. [5]
I'm putting in the yarn about the Limburger cheese and the box of guns, too--mighty glad Howells declined it. [5]
But Howells thought the title satisfactory, and indeed it was the best that could have been selected for the series. [5]
He never finished the Sandwich Islands story which he and Howells were to dramatize later. [5]
A letter bearing the same date as the above went back to Howells, we find, in reference to still another incident, which perhaps should come first. [5]
The idea of the play interested Howells, but he had twinges of conscience in the matter of using Orion as material. [5]
Mrs. Howells applauded the notion of the club from the very first. [5]
One may imagine the joy of Howells and the others in this ludicrous extravaganza, which could have been written by no one but Mark Twain. [5]
Howells wrote near the end of January that the matter was still being debated, now and then, but was far from being decided upon. [5]
Mark Twain, to the end of his life, loved all that Howells wrote. [5]
Now you said that you and Mrs. Howells could run down here nearly any Saturday. [5]
In the letter that follows we find him much less enthusiastic concerning his own performances than over the story by Howells, which he was following in the Atlantic. [5]
Sketches was issued that autumn, and Howells gave it a good notice --possibly better than it deserved. [5]
Mr. Howells must tell me how to proceed in the matter. [5]
About half the talk was--"It is a burning shame that Howells isn't here. [5]
Back in Hartford, sweating and suffering through sleepless nights, he wrote Howells his anguish. [5]
Whether the plan suggested interested Howells or not we do not know. [5]
In the United States polite letters was a cult of the Brahmins of Boston, with William Dean Howells at the helm of the Atlantic. [5]
Can't Mrs. Howells spare you to me? [5]
The two men, so widely different, became firm friends at sight, and it was to Howells in the years to come that Mark Twain would write more letters, and more characteristic letters, than to any other living man. [5]
The Howells incident so amusingly dramatized will perhaps be more appreciated if the reader remembers that Mark Twain himself had at intervals been a mind-healing enthusiast. [5]
If Mr. Howells should pretend to me that he wrote the Plague-Spot Bacilli rhapsody, I should receive the statement courteously; but I should know it for a--well, for a perversion. [5]
I consider it settled that you are to come in March, and I would be sincerely sorry to learn that you and Mrs. Howells feel differently about it. [5]
Howells, strangely enough, seems to have been about the last one to be told of their European plans; in fact, he first got wind of it from the papers, and wrote for information. [5]
The Howells story, running at this time in the Atlantic, and so much enjoyed by the Clemens party, was "The Lady of the Aroostook. [5]
To Howells he reports his difficulties, and his drastic method of ending them. [5]
Of course Howells promptly replied that he would read the story, adding: "You've no idea what I may ask you to do for me, some day. [5]
Women require more preparation to go visiting, and Mrs. Clemens and Mrs. Howells seem to have exchanged visits infrequently. [5]
Nevertheless, they were pleasantly entertaining, and Howells expressed full approval of them for Atlantic use. [5]
He made a play of the Prince and Pauper, which Howells pronounced "too thin and slight and not half long enough. [5]
During this prolific period Mark wrote many minor items, most of them rejected by Howells, and read extensively in one of his favorite books, Pepys' Diary. [5]
Howells was a peerless critic, but the revolutionary subject-matter of the book so delighted him that he was perhaps somewhat blinded to its literary defects. [5]
Howells has a peculiar gift for seeing the merits of people, and he has always exhibited them in my favor. [5]
Howells had been paid twenty-six hundred dollars for the work on it, and his conscience hurt him when he reflected that the book might never be used. [5]
After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. [5]
Clemens worked steadily on the river chapters, and Howells was always praising him and urging him to go on. [5]
In the matter of verbal exactness Mr. Howells has no superior, I suppose. [5]
On the completion of The Prince and Pauper story, Clemens had naturally sent it to Howells for consideration. [5]
By the end of summer Howells was in Europe, and Clemens, in Elmira, was trying to finish his Mississippi book, which was giving him a great deal of trouble. [5]
On the day of its arrival he wrote two letters that have survived, the first to his brother, the other to Howells. [5]
Even the Library of Humor, which Howells, with Clark, of the Courant, had put together for him, he left with Osgood until that publisher failed, during the spring of 1885. [5]
The story has now become history --printed history--it having been sympathetically told by Howells in My Mark Twain, and more exhaustively, with a report of the speech that invited the lightning, in a former work by the present writer. [5]
Mrs. Clemens did not go, and Clemens and Howells did not go, either--to the celebration. [5]
Howells, however, did not come to the club meeting, but promised to come soon when they could have a quiet time to themselves together. [5]
But Howells could not bring himself to print so frank a confession as Orion had been willing to make. [5]
But Howells had no doubts as to the quality of the new find. [5]
I was driven nearly distracted by his long account of Mr. Howells and his wanderings. [5]
Howells, who was near me, tried to say a comforting word, but couldn't get beyond a gasp. [5]
Howells, in his 'My Mark Twain', tells of going with Clemens to see Grant, then a member of the ill-fated firm of Grant and Ward, and how they lunched on beans, bacon and coffee brought in from a near-by restaurant. [5]
In his book, My Mark Twain, Howells refers to the "tragedy" of Miss Dickinson's appearance. [5]
P. S. to Mrs. Howells, in Boston: Feb. '78. [5]
Would you and Mrs. Howells like to invite Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich? [5]
If you and Mrs. Howells cannot be there by half past 4, I'll not plan to arrive till the later train-time (6,) because I don't want to be there alone--even a minute. [5]
I have known Mr. Howells nearly thirty-four years, and I knew Chauncey Depew before he could walk straight, and before he learned to tell the truth. [5]
You know how modest and retiring Howells seems to be, but deep down he is as vain as I am. [5]
The "Encyclopedical Scotchman" mentioned in the preceding letter was the publisher Gebbie, who had a plan to engage Howells and Clemens to prepare some sort of anthology of the world's literature. [5]
The "skeleton novelette" mentioned in the next letter refers to a plan concocted by Howells and Clemens, by which each of twelve authors was to write a story, using the same plot, "blindfolded" as to what the others had written. [5]
Howells, Hay, Aldrich, Matthews, Stockton, Cable, Remus--how their young hopes and ambitions come flooding back to my memory now, out of the vague far past, the beautiful past, the lamented past! [5]
Howells is a man who--" She was gone. [5]
At York Harbor, Maine, where they had taken a cottage for the summer--a pretty place, with Howells not far distant, at Kittery Point--Mrs. Clemens's health gave way. [5]
The play, "Yorick's Love," mentioned in this letter, was one which Howells had done for Lawrence Barrett. [5]
We all send love to you and Mrs. Howells, and all the family. [5]
I would just like to see Howells get down to his work and explain, and lie, and work his futile and inventionless subterfuges when that princess comes raging in here and wanting to know. [5]
A man who like me, is going to strike 70 on the 30th of next November has no business to be flitting around the way Howells does--that shameless old fictitious butter fly. [5]
The old long-deferred Library of Humor came up again for discussion, when in the fall of 1885 Howells associated himself with Harper & Brothers. [5]
He wrote few letters, and these only to his three closest friends, Howells, Twichell, and Rogers. [5]
Also, in this letter, Howells speaks of an English nobleman to whom he has given a letter of introduction. [5]

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