Correspondents

Examples

• You will probably keep a larger house, have many matters to arrange, and be beset by numbers of correspondents. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr Blandois, not at all put out by this omission on the part of the correspondents of the house of Clennam and Co. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And hark ye, said Tom; we've got correspondents in Sandusky, that watch the boats for us. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If he has had no visitors, that prompting must have come in letters; hence I try to find out who were his correspondents. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We have already named this Archimedes as one of the pupils and correspondents of the school of the Alexandrian Museum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At some of the outports a credit is commonly given to those foreign correspondents to whom they export them tobacco. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them--by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The last recording telegraph we shall notice is the one invented by the author, which transmits copies of the handwriting of correspondents. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was desirable, therefore, that correspondents should not be privileged spies of the enemy within our lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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