"Writer's name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... story can hardly be called legendary, though it may certainly be termed ancestral. The writer's name is not given, but he is described as a rector and Rural Dean in the late Established Church of Ireland, and a Justice of the Peace for two counties. It has this added interest that it was told to Queen Victoria by the Marchioness ...
— True Irish Ghost Stories • St John D Seymour
... of the fact would have been alarmed by a note which began without an address, except that on the envelope, and ended its peremptory brevity with the writer's name signed in full. Dan read calamity in it, and he had all the more trouble to pull himself together to meet it because he had parted with unusual tenderness from Alice the night before, after an evening in which it seemed to him that their ideals ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... hardly be called legendary, though it may certainly be termed ancestral. The writer's name is not given, but he is described as a rector and Rural Dean in the late Established Church of Ireland, and a Justice of the Peace for two counties. It has this added interest that it was told to Queen Victoria by the Marchioness ...
— True Irish Ghost Stories • St John D Seymour
... second part of vol. ii. in the Catalogus Bibliothecae Thottiauae (7 vol. 8vo. Fauniae, 1789-1795.) contains a catalogue, which it might be well to consult, of dissertations under the name of the president or head of the institution or college where they were delivered, than under the writer's name. At least, in a collective sense the former method is adopted, as in the following instance: Schultens, (Alb.) Sylloge Dissertationem Philologico-Eregeticarum, adiversis Auctoribus Editarum, sub Praesidio A. Schultens, etc., 2 tom.: ...
— Notes and Queries, No. 28. Saturday, May 11, 1850 • Various
... make up my mind that either my own powers were not equal to the task, or else that her perversities were as essential a part of her work as her inspirations, and not to be separated from it. Once during this period I showed two of the short poems to Isabel, withholding of course the writer's name. "They were written by a ...
— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson |
