Writers

Examples

• Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• None of the writers seemed to understand how it was done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But romance-writers might know nothing of love, judging by the way in which they treat of it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Modern writers almost refuse to consider the subject, which is supposed to have been long ago settled by the common opinion of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
• The writers who have nothing to say are the ones that you can buy: the others have too high a price. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have given two fair, average specimens of the character of the testimony offered by the majority of the writers who visit this region. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By birth he was probably a Jew, though some Jewish writers deny this; he had certainly studied under Jewish teachers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So far as the writers can ascertain this is the first example of field telephony. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You have a new crop of prose writers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Might not t his ring explain the supercelestial waters that gave such cause for ingenuity to the medieval writers? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Modern and Christian writers have often fallen short of these; they can hardly be said to have gone beyond them. Plato. The Republic.
• Paul stooped down and proceeded--as novel-writers say, and, as was literally true in his case--to hiss into my ear some poignant words. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It has been the practice of recent writers to decry the philosophical discussion of the medi?val schoolmen as tedious and futile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Other Greek writers saw the mischievous tendency of Spartan discipline (AriSt. Pol; Thuc. Plato. The Republic.
• Buddhist writers thought very highly of Tai-tsung because of his reception of Yuan Chwang (645). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Will I send it to the writers? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• English journals and writers of that period, without a single exception, spoke of the American reapers which were exhibited as completely successful. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Roman writers accuse her of great cruelties. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Indian writers say that their function was to wait upon the three twice born castes above them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But so did the Moslem historians, because of that mosque at Canton, and so did the Christian writers, because of the Nestorian envoys (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Sonny,' he said, 'if these politicians had their speeches published as they deliver them, a great many shorthand writers would be out of a job. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In fact, some writers maintain that Thales wa s not a philosopher at all, but rather an astronomer and engineer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I have carefully avoided every fault with which common writers of travels are often too justly charged. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• All the great writers of the time knew her, and several have praised her wisdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is impossible, after reading them, not to consider the poor potter one of the greatest writers of the French language. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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