"Letter writer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... negative, and implies the absence of all character, and, in language, of all idiom, all bone and muscle. I have a notion—only do not whisper such heresy within college walls—that a college tutor must be genteel in his college judgments, that 'The Polite Letter Writer' was the work of an M.A. in the 'Augustan Age.' You may find in Shakespeare household words and phrases from every condition and walk in life—as much coarseness as you please to look for—anything and everything except gentility and vulgarity. Occasional vulgarity is, therefore, a question ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... confounded telephone messages," he said, turning to me and taking the cylinder off. "I looks as though the ready- letter writer who used to send warnings had learned his lesson and taken to the telephone as leaving ...
— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve
... duly informed by the landlady, waited and watched, and bided his time in silence. At last the case became desperate. Herminia had no money left to pay her bill or buy food; and one string to her bow after another broke down in journalism. Her place as the weekly lady's-letter writer to an illustrated paper passed on to a substitute; blank poverty stared her in the face, inevitable. When it came to pawning the type-writer, as the landlady reported, Sir Anthony smiled a grim smile to himself. The moment for action had now arrived. He would put on pressure to get ...
— The Woman Who Did • Grant Allen
... are lies," returned Mr. Minford. "Every anonymous letter writer is a liar—until it is proved that he tells the truth. I shall believe none of these low aspersions on your honor, Mr. Wilkeson, without conclusive evidence." As the inventor said this, not emphatically, Marcus saw that he believed all that the ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... letter writer! After being so long with them, I don't like hearing nothing more; but his time has been so much engrossed that he could hardly have written at first. I believe the first letter he looked for was ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge |
