John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

Did it take a man of sixty-five longer to write a letter, shave, clean out a barn, read a newspaper, than a man of thirty??

Another less ambiguous case read as follows: `` The bearer of this letter has served me for two years to his complete satisfaction.

On a Sabbath in September, 1304, the letter was to be read before the congregation, when Jacob Machir Don Profiat Tibbon, the renowned astronomical and mathematical writer, entered his protest against such unlawful interference by the Barcelona rabbis, and a schism ensued.

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

The letter is from Krogstad, yet Torvald demands read the letter, taking it from Nora.

Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

He could almost certainly read and write ; he communicated with merchants and when killed had in his possession a letter addressed to him by the Chief Justice and Secretary of the Province of Carolina, Tobias Knight.

The name Cernunnos can be read clearly on 18th century drawings of the inscriptions, but the initial letter has been obscured since, so that today only a reading ernunnos can be verified

" It can be assumed that ' Dian ' is simply a shortening of ' Diana ' since later in the play when Parolles ' letter to Diana is read aloud it reads ' Dian '.

Indicates a type of hamza that is pronounced only when the letter is read at the beginning of the talk.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

For example, the letter क is read ka, ( not ' kaah '; similar to German suffix-e, as in Deutsche ) the two letters कन are kana, the three कनय are kanaya, etc.

It was composed as an encyclical letter — that is, one not directed to the members of one church in particular, but intended rather to be circulated and read in all churches.

" This was probably a circular letter to be read in more than one place .... Most likely, the author did not know the readers personally ( see 1: 15, 3: 2-4, and 6: 23-24 ).

The Epistle to the Colossians states " After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.

However, during the time of Arianism's flowering in Constantinople, the Gothic convert Ulfilas ( later the subject of the letter of Auxentius cited above ) was sent as a missionary to the Gothic barbarians across the Danube, a mission favored for political reasons by emperor Constantius II.

The practice of dropping the letter u in such words was also considered a labour-saving technique during the early days of printing in which movable type was set manually.

He secured, during the council's second period, 1551 – 53, an invitation, twice given, to the Protestants to be present and the council issued a letter of safe conduct ( thirteenth session ) and offered them the right of discussion, but denied them a vote.

Columbus named this island as Savona after the Italian city of the same name but the use during years has eliminated the letter v.

The word docetai ( illusionists ) referring to early groups who denied Jesus's humanity, first occurred in a letter by Bishop Serapion of Antioch ( 197-203 ), who discovered the doctrine in the Gospel of Peter, during a pastoral visit to a Christian community using it in Rhosus, and later condemned it as a forgery.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

These left him with a noticeable asymmetry during facial expression and resulted in his difficulty in eating or speaking ( he could not pronounce some consonants such as the letter ' r ').

Of the various minuscule letter shapes, the inverted-3 form became the basis for lower-case Epsilon in Greek typography during the modern era.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

If Paul was the author of the letter, then it was probably written from Rome during Paul's first imprisonment (; ; ), and probably soon after his arrival there in the year 62, four years after he had parted with the Ephesian elders at Miletus.

The letter may have been written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment.

If the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as 80 AD.

Due to its ambiguity, the letter was a cause of debate during the British and later American struggles over the abolition of slavery.

On May 25, 1780, Hopkinson wrote a letter to the Continental Board of Admiralty mentioning several patriotic designs he had completed during the previous three years.

The letter was written during this time in Ephesus, which is usually dated as being in the range of 53 to 57 AD.

The recipients of this letter are referred to in 1: 1 as “ exiles of the Dispersion .” In 1: 17, they are urged to “ live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.

Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives.

A letter found on a lead tablet in Bath, Somerset, datable to c. 363, had been widely publicised as documentary evidence regarding the state of Christianity in Britain during Roman times.

Patients would receive a numeric and letter based score based upon the severity of their disease as found during the hydrodistention.

The 16-page letter to his mother detailed life on the yacht during a 1936 Mediterranean cruise on which King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were passengers.

Several volumes of letters were published after his death, as was Journal to Eliza, a more sentimental than humorous love letter to a woman Sterne was courting during the final years of his life.

In early February 2005, during the Pope's illness, Ağca sent a letter to the Pope wishing him well and also warning him that the world would end soon.

Sanger's ally Upton Sinclair wrote an open letter of support for Sanger and her husband in The Masses and during her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.

In 1773, Lessing published an epigram he had found in a manuscript during his work as a librarian ; it claimed to be a letter sent by Archimedes to Eratosthenes.