`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

Mr. Sansom actually writes his with a nice ear for a gracefully composed sentence, with an intense relish in all the metaphorical resources of English, with a thick shower of sophisticated, cultural references.

Anthony Burgess writes that " Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era.

Froissart also writes that the French armour was invulnerable to the English arrows, that the arrowheads either skidded off the armor or shattered on impact.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

Higgins writes in the first person of finding the graves of 13 German paratroopers in an English churchyard, an event known not to have actually occurred, and claims that the book stems from his research into actual events.

" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.

Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

In his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ( 1821, p. 188 ), it is still about Ottoman, not Chinese, addicts that Thomas de Quincey writes: " I question whether any Turk, of all that ever entered the paradise of opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had.

The Venerable Bede writes of the pope's affectionate concern for the English Church.

For example, in Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, English professor Howard Schwartz writes, " the definition of ' mythology ' offered here does not attempt to determine if biblical or subsequent narratives are true or false, i. e., historically accurate or not ".

) Deacon writes the same year that syphilis is a " Turkished ," " Spanished ", or " Frenchized " disease that the English contract by " trafficking with the contagious courruptions.

* Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest.

* Matthew Paris writes Historia Anglorum, a work on English history.

In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that Burton " managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in English in 1883, nasty bits and all ".

In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A l ' ombre de moi-meme (" In My Own Shadow ", published in English as Close Up and Personal: The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve ); in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and Dancer in the Dark.

In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( Which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

Froissart writes that English cannon made " two or three discharges on the Genoese ", which is taken to mean individual shots by two or three guns because of the time necessary to reload such primitive artillery.

Nancy Louise Huston, OC ( born September 16, 1953 ) is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.

Essentially she writes in French and subsequently self-translates into English but Plainsong ( 1993 ) was written first in English and then self-translated to French as Cantique des plaines ( 1993 )-it was, however, the French version which first found a publisher.

" He writes that the " effect would be equally appreciated by someone with no knowledge of English whatsoever ", apparently missing the pun frequently employed by Stein.

Around the thirteenth century, the English monk Roger Bacon wrote a book in which he listed seven cipher methods, and stated that " a man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

In the preface to the third book, Thorndike writes that the list contained therein “ tells anyone who wishes to know whether to use a word in writing, speaking, or teaching how common the word is in standard English reading matter ” ( p. x ), and he further advises that the list can best be employed by teachers if they allow it to guide the decisions they make choosing which words to emphasize during reading instruction.

The Guardian writes that his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis called a " terrible compulsive vividness in his style ... that constant demonstrating of his command of English ," and that the " Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop ".

Nick Austin, who was editorial director of Sphere Books when Watkins ' adaptation was commissioned and published, writes that the book was the " best chance I ’ d ever be likely to get to participate in a hoax of truly Guy Grand proportions — the best thing of its kind since Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

Beinhart also writes screenplays, most recently an adaptation of his own novel, " The Librarian.

Newsweek writes that White reads the story “ without artifice and with a mellow charm ,” and that “ White also has a plangency that will make you weep, so don ’ t listen ( at least, not to the sad parts ) while driving .” Joe Berk, president of Pathway Sound, had recorded Charlotte ’ s Web with White in White ’ s neighbor's house in Maine ( which Berk describes as an especially memorable experience ) and released the book in LP.

Kranenborg also writes that the techniques of Knowledge originated from the Surat Shabda Yoga or Sant Mat, the Path of the Sound Current, and that some of the techniques are related to the ' japa -' or mantra-yoga that are similar to some techniques of Transcendental meditation and the Hare Krishnas.

" Synonymous with a small studio in Sheffield, Alabama, the sixties Atlantic recordings of Wexler defined the Muscle Shoals Sound ," writes Clinton Heylin.

He sometimes writes for the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine.

* One of the children's books that Ted Cole writes, A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound, has become a real children's novel with illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann.

She composes and writes lyrics ( for herself as well as other singers in I've Sound ) for numerous other song collections.

Dexter lives and writes on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

David Cole writes that " the Chinese Room argument has probably been the most widely discussed philosophical argument in cognitive science to appear in the past 25 years ".

The two oldest printed Chinese calendars are dated 877 and 882 ; they were found at the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Dunhuang ; Patricia Ebrey writes that it is no surprise that some of the earliest printed items were calendars, since the Chinese found it necessary to calculate and mark which days were auspicious and which were not.

For example, the majority of overseas Chinese of Taiwanese origin write their given names like " Tai Lun " or " Tai-Lun ", whereas the Wade – Giles actually writes " Tai-lun ".

* 1178: Chinese writer Zhou Qufei, a Guangzhou customs officer, writes of an island far west in the Indian Ocean ( possibly Madagascar ), from where people with skin " as black as lacquer " and with frizzy hair were captured and purchased as slaves by Arab merchants.

* 748: The Chinese Buddhist monk Jian Zhen writes in his Yue Jue Shu of the international sea traffic coming to Guangzhou, ships from Borneo, Persia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and others bringing tons of goods.

* The Chinese philosopher Li Kui writes the Book of Law ( Fajing, 法经 ) in 407 BC, the basis for the law codes of the following Qin Dynasty and partially that of the Han Dynasty.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

* Significant to the history of agriculture, Chinese author Jia Sixia writes the treatise " Chimin Yaoshu " in this year, and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise.

* The Arab merchant Suleiman al-Tajir visits Tang Dynasty China, observing the manufacturing of Chinese porcelain at Guangzhou and writes of his admiration for its transparent quality.

* The Tang Dynasty Chinese author Duan Chengshi writes about Chinese maritime trade in East Africa, and the Arab-run slave trade there.

* In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese author Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.

* The Chinese poet Zhang Xian writes the Iron Cannon Affair about the destructive use of gunpowder and the cannon.

* Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese Dominican friar, writes about his travels to the Ming Dynasty of China, including the Chinese civil service handbook The Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty, and how the Chinese draw lots to determine which days of the year are most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon.

Naqqah writes about China's wealthy economy and huge urban markets, its efficient courier system as compared to that in Persia, the hospitality of his hosts at the courier stations in providing comfortable lodging and food, and the fine luxurious goods and craftsmenship of the Chinese.

* Song Dynasty Chinese judge and magistrate Bao Qingtian writes a memorial to the throne, warning about governmental corruption and a foreseeable bankruptcy of the Chinese iron industry, if increasingly poorer families continued to be listed on the register for iron-smelting households ( while more rich households avoid being listed for fear of financial calamity ).

* Song Dynasty Chinese author Qin Guan writes the Can Shu ( Book of Sericulture ), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

* While engaged in a war with the Mongols, the Song Chinese official Li Zengbo writes in his Kozhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou is manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased gunpowder bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.