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Sentences starting with writers
- Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the majority of them having nothing in stock but a cigar, a laugh, a blush, and a bursting into tears. [5]
- Writers of universal history who deal with all the nations seem to recognize how erroneous is the specialist historians' view of the force which produces events. [2]
- Writers and speakers have their idiosyncrasies, their habits, their tricks, if you had rather call them so, as to their ways of writing and speaking. [6]
- Writers of books have the fashion of whizzing by vast and renowned historical events with the remark, "The details of this tremendous episode are too familiar to the reader to need repeating here. [5]
Sentences ending with writers
- An allusion by William Strachey, in his "Historie of Travaile into Virginia," hastily read, may have misled some writers. [4]
- In the text we have reconstructed it as far as possible from the accounts of classical writers. [10]
- I., and from the accounts given by many other writers. [10]
- Mr. Warner wrote out of a clear, as well as a full mind, and lucidity of style was part of that harmonious charm of sincerity and urbanity which made him one of the most intelligible and companionable of our writers. [4]
- You see that many of these statements are highly improbable.--No, I shall not mention the paper.--No, neither of them wrote it, though it reminds me of the style of these popular writers. [6]
- I have borrowed ideas from several of these writers. [1]
- Of this journal, Hawley and Warner, now in part proprietors, were the editorial writers. [4]
- Out of this free agitation sprang a literary product, great in quantity and to some degree distinguished in quality, groups of historians, poets, novelists, essayists, biographers, scientific writers. [4]
- I do not feel authorized to furnish you with copies of letters in my possession without the consent of the writers. [7]
- He likes the expression "mother-wit," which he finds in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and other old writers. [6]
Sentences containing writers two or more times
- I have been consulted by hundreds of writers of verse as to the merit of their performances, and have often advised the writers to the best of my ability. [6]
More example sentences with the word writers in them
- How dull we writers, famous or obscure, are in the acquisition of knowledge as compared with them! [6]
- These were the writers who helped to make the "North American Review" what it was during the period of Emerson's youth and early manhood. [6]
- Many of our writers show the same tendency,--my friend, the Professor, especially. [6]
- Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
- A few Continental writers have adopted similar conclusions. [3]
- If the writers wouldn't exaggerate so, talk about 'the sublimity of the mountains challenging the eternal grandeur of the sea'! [4]
- And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
- The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
- The next morning, when Hodder entered his study, he sighed as his eye fell upon the unusual pile of letters on his desk, for their writers had once been his friends. [9]
- What sound wit, what keenness of observation, what a happy gift of invention, the old comic writers had at their disposal! [10]
- For all that, we know there is a school of writers who will not allow that Pope deserves the name of poet. [6]
- On this point we have but to read the testimony of English writers themselves. [4]
- What a study was this varied, mixed, flaunting life, this dance of pleasure and license before the very altar of the church, for the writers of satire, comedy, and tragedy! [4]
- One of them was a young member of Congress who had been making exhaustive studies of the situation in Italy, France and England, and the other one of our best-known writers, both bound for London. [9]
- Celebrities in every walk of life, persons of social and official rank, writers for the press, assembled there on terms hardly possible in any other home in Vienna. [5]
- Mr. C. Staniland Wake argues strongly ('Anthropologia,' March, 1874, p. 197) against the views held by these three writers on the former prevalence of almost promiscuous intercourse; and he thinks that the classificatory system of relationship can be otherwise explained. [1]
- The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
- During the past two years I have been reading through a group of writers who seem to me to represent about the best we have--Sir Thomas Malory, Spenser, Shakespeare, Boswell, Carlyle, Le Sage. [5]
- In less than twenty years we have seen wonderful changes in public taste and in the efforts of writers to meet it or to create it. [4]
- This is pre-eminently true of those writers whose charm lies less in distinctively intellectual qualities than in temperament, atmosphere, humor-writers of the quality of Steele, Goldsmith, Lamb, Irving. [4]
- It sounds mad to you of course, but there have been times when I have had a wild longing to go back to it all, to what some Gorgio writers call the pariah world--the Ishmaelites. [11]
- I fully subscribe to the judgment of those writers (1. [1]
- Mr. Ruskin seems to me one of the few genuine writers, as distinguished from book-makers, of this age. [14]
- Whittier was beginning to make his way against the writers with better educational advantages whom he was destined to outdo and to outlive. [6]
- His name began to be known in a small circle who are interested in the business, and it was not long before he had offers from editors, who were always on the lookout for new writers of promise, to send something for their magazines. [4]
- Both writers had this in common: they were poets and moralists. [6]
- In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. [6]
- The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
- How many of them were ordered to meet a supposed market, and how many of them were the spontaneous and natural productions of writers who had something to say? [4]
- And fortunately for their nourishment in this kind, the dullest writers can be indecent. [4]
- I might guess the writers sometimes by the handwriting, but there is more trouble taken to disguise the chirography than I choose to take to identify it as that of any particular member of our company. [6]
- Like most of the writers of the seventeenth century, and the court ladies and gentlemen of the eighteenth century, he is an independent speller. [4]
- The writers of the within are good men, residing within the land district. [7]
- Those writers know the values of their words and phrases, but to you the words and phrases convey other and uncertain values. [5]
- Many have been the themes upon which writers and public speakers have dwelt with intense and increasing interest. [5]
- Irving has shared the neglect of the writers of his generation. [4]
- Indeed, but for the intervention of the magazines, few of the best writers of novels and short stories could earn as much as the day laborer earns. [4]
- The terrors of the hurricane which dispersed the fleet, and this shipwreck, were much dwelt upon by the writers of the time, and the Bermudas became a sort of enchanted islands, or realms of the imagination. [4]
- Correct writers of the American language do not put an before three words. [5]
- It is true that unfledged writers found a place to try their wings in it, and that makes it more interesting. [6]
- It deserves notice that several writers, including the well-known arachnologist Walckenaer, have declared that spiders are attracted by music. [1]
- And the fact that it has been seriously combated by writers who deny such a function of the subconscious does not at all affect the reality of the experience. [9]
- Mr. Emerson says that his narrow and desultory reading had inspired him with the wish to see the faces of three or four writers, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, Carlyle. [6]
- Writers, less wise than the Apostles, essayed in the Apocryphal New Testament, a legendary and traditional history of the early life of Jesus. [5]
- It is thoroughly Syrian, and that is to say that it is thoroughly ugly, and cramped, squalid, uncomfortable, and filthy--just the style of cities that have adorned the country since Adam's time, as all writers have labored hard to prove, and have succeeded. [5]
- Some writers have suggested that the aborigines of islands have suffered in fertility and health from long continued inter-breeding; but in the above cases infertility has coincided too closely with the arrival of Europeans for us to admit this explanation. [1]
- Many writers, and some of them English, have expressed curiosity, if not wonder, at the different fortunes which attended the doctrine of equality in America and in France. [4]
- This law of simultaneous intellectual movement, recognized by all thinkers, expatiated upon by Lord Macaulay and by Mr. Herbert Spencer among recent writers, is eminently applicable to that change of thought and feeling which necessarily led to the present conflict. [6]
- Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom; but writers might better be sent to the spider, not because he works all night, and watches all day, but because he works unconsciously. [4]
- You writers go searching all round for materials, just as painters do, fit for your genius. [4]
- The two writers reveal themselves as being in strong sympathy with each other, in spite of a radical difference of temperament and entirely opposite views of life. [6]
- This law, which results from observing the life and works of the greatest writers, has shown itself very distinctly in a minor one like myself. [10]
- Shakspeare is always present when one reads his book; Macaulay is present when we follow the march of his stately sentences; but the Old Testament writers are hidden from view. [5]
- It is much pleasanter and easier to fertilize with a pen, as the agricultural writers do, than with a fork. [4]
- For Writers of Playes, and such as have been players themselves, William Shakespeare and Benjamin Johnson have especially left their Names recommended to posterity. [4]
- Uncredited quotations from other writers often leave a reader in doubt as to their authorship, but McClintock is safe from that accident; an uncredited quotation from him would always be recognizable. [5]
- I am not one of your players of music, stage actors, writers of books, or painters of pictures, who assume a station that the laws of their country don't recognise. [12]
- I suspect many of us are conscious of a second personality in our complex nature, which has many traits resembling those found in the writers of the letters addressed to Mr. De Horgan. [6]
- He is one of the only two Homoeopathic writers with whom, as I shall mention, the Paris publisher will have anything to do upon his own account. [3]
- This is one of the most common criticisms on our social state by a certain class of writers in England, who take an unflagging interest in our development. [4]
- The best proof of its vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field. [6]
- A third class of historians--the so-called historians of culture--following the path laid down by the universal historians who sometimes accept writers and ladies as forces producing events--again take that force to be something quite different. [2]
- It has been observed by ancient writers that the second bridge was a very good bridge. [5]
- It is a note of some of the purest modern writers that they avoid comparisons, similes, and even too much use of metaphor. [4]
- These Continental writers not well informed on this point. [3]
- Neither the writers nor the artists have a due sense of the responsibilities of their creations. [4]
- I have attempted no lofty theme, nor sought to look wise and learned, which appears to be very much the fashion among our American writers at present. [4]
- But take the names of its contributors during its first fifty years from the literary record of that period, and we should have but a meagre list of mediocrities, saved from absolute poverty by the genius of two or three writers like Irving and Cooper. [6]
- Conspicuous exceptions are Motley and Parkman and a few belles-lettres writers, whose novels and stories mark a distinct literary transition since the War of the Rebellion. [4]
- I don't any more understand you than I comprehend the writers who write about the feminization of literature. [4]
- It is variously mentioned by different early writers as "the plague," "a great and grievous plague," "a sore consumption," as attended with spots which left unhealed places on those who recovered, as making the "whole surface yellow as with a garment. [3]
- Nothing in modern literature is more amazing than the bulk of English criticism in the last three-quarters of a century, so far as it concerned individual writers, both in poetry and prose. [4]
- We don't want literary revenants, superfluous veterans, writers who have worn out their welcome and still insist on being attended to. [6]
- We get little light from contemporary writers on this quarrel. [4]
- All men of letters or of science, all writers well known to the public, are constantly tampered with, in these days, by a class of predaceous and hungry fellow-laborers who may be collectively spoken of as the brain-tappers. [6]
- Many of our later German painters have learned to value the charm of such a subject, while of our writers Fontane has seized and very happily rendered all their witchery. [10]
- There was no lack of writers who sought to deal--and deal triumphantly with the very situation in which I was immersed. [9]
- I do not know how much the imagination has to do in shaping the national character, but for half a century English writers, by poems and novels, controlled the imagination of this country. [4]
- Yet in the judgment the responsibility will rest upon the writers who set the copy. [4]
- North American Review: its predecessor, 28, 29, 33; the writers, 34; Emerson's contributions, 73; Ethics, 294, 295; Bryant's article, 328. [6]
- Akin to this is the trick which has put under proper suspicion some very clever writers of our day, and cost them all public confidence in whatever they do,--the trick of posing for what they are not. [4]
- I do not include in it the works of writers either born in England or completely English in training, method, and tradition, showing nothing distinctively American in their writings except the incidental subject. [4]
- Australia is fertile in writers whose books are faithful mirrors of the life of the country and of its history. [5]
- Department a blast in the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got a blast in return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster. [5]
- He asked me if I pursued an original course, or whether I got my ideas from writers on the subject. [4]
- You can reckon how many copies at ten cents a copy it will need to make as much as some writers get for a trivial magazine paper. [4]
- Its author saw his name enrolled by common consent among those of the great writers of his time. [6]
- He spent only his leisure hours in the study of the ancient writers, in whom he found pleasure, and rejoiced in the work of the humanists without sharing their opinions. [10]
- Professedly Celia was his critic, but really she was the necessary appreciator, for probably most writers would come to a standstill if there was no sympathetic soul to whom they could communicate, while they were fresh, the teeming fancies of their brains. [4]
- I suppose there have always been the careful, painstaking writers, the men who are always taken so seriously by their fellow craftsmen. [5]
- But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the profound conception of some one man who saved Russia and destroyed Napoleon. [2]
- Emerson says he had read the fifty-five volumes of Goethe, but no other German writers, at least in the original. [6]
- The diary is greatly relied on by the writers of history, but it is doubtful if there is any such liar in the world, even when the keeper of it is honest. [4]
- Your learning is great, Reverend Abbot, but I know the old writers, too. [10]
- If I should get one of the popular writers you refer to, the public would know he was hired. [4]
- That deep and generous thinker, who, more than any of her philosophical writers, represents the higher thought of England, John Stuart Mill, has spoken for us in tones to which none but her sordid hucksters and her selfish land-graspers can refuse to listen. [6]
- This difficulty arises from the impossibility of judging what passes through the mind of an animal; and again, the fact that writers differ to a great extent in the meaning which they attribute to the above terms, causes a further difficulty. [1]
- I have, however, found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments, and give one the satisfaction of reality, the sense of having been met, and a larger horizon. [6]
- And, perhaps more flattering than all, he began to have society invitations to dine, and professional invitations to those little breakfasts that publishers give to old writers and to young whose names are beginning to be spoken of. [4]
- But as to fiction, even if the writers of it were all trained in it as an art, it is not so easy to lift the public taste to their artistic level. [4]
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