The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``

And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.

but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

In June, 1960, an early draft of the questionnaire, along with a cover letter, was mailed to fourteen companies in the state of Washington.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

Still another, annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive, wrote: `` yore letter was short and sweet, jist like a roasted maget ''.

Gödel filled it out in pencil and wrote a cover letter, but he never returned it.

In the 18th century it is certain that the letters were often issued blank, i. e. without containing the name of the person against whom they were directed ; the recipient, or mandatary, filled in the name in order to make the letter effective.

In a famous letter, he describes his daily routine: After visiting the Sultan's palace, he would arrive home exhausted and hungry, where " I would find the antechambers filled with gentiles and Jews ...

The Mayan language is melodic, filled with explosive consontants ( p ', k ' and t ') and " sh " sounds ( represented by the letter " x " in the Mayan language ).

The most elaborate version of these is contained in the Siddur published by the 18th century Yemenite Kabbalist Shalom Sharabi for the use of the Bet El yeshivah in Jerusalem: this contains only a few lines of text on each page, the rest being filled with intricate meditations on the letter combinations in the prayers.

Even as Come Back, Little Sheba was in a pre-Broadway run in early 1950, Inge was filled with some doubt as to its success, as he expressed in a letter to his sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous, " If Sheba makes it in Hartford I guess it will go on to Broadway and if it doesn't I suppose I'll be back in St. Louis.

On Cooper's urging, Monck's troops marched into London and Monck sent parliament a letter insisting that the vacant seats in the Rump Parliament be filled by-elections.

” Your letter has filled me at once with sorrow and with joy.

After disposing of the Hendersons ' bodies in oil drums filled with acid, he forged a letter from them and sold all of their possessions for £ 8, 000 ( except their dog, which he kept ).

This void was filled thanks to a campaign started by a letter local from a businessman in the local newspaper setting in motion the formation of Tamworth F. C.

Yūko also attends because she has been invited to the mansion with many other famous collectors by the same letter, with the mansion filled with strange rooms and mysterious letters telling its guests what to do in place of a host.

Between 1977 and 2003, Graham filled almost 4, 000 notebooks, recording such varied items as the movie he and his daughter rented on the eve of his grandchild's birth ( Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, which, he noted, he rewound and returned ), as well as details of strangers he'd met at airports so that he could follow up with a friendly letter.

The label " r " here is a " variable " that can be filled with a natural number or a letter ( e. g. " A ") or a name.

Then, removing the grille, the fragments are filled out to create a note or letter that disguises the true message.

A letter for p is conspicuously absent, since the phoneme was lost in Proto-Celtic, and the gap was not filled in Q-Celtic, and no sign was needed before loanwords from Latin containing p appeared in Irish ( e. g., Patrick ).

However, by summer he received a letter from the city stating that all internship positions were filled.

These special pastries are said to be distributed by Saint Nicholas ' aide Zwarte Piet ; and they include pepernoten ( gingernut-like biscuits but made with cinnamon, pepper, cloves and nutmeg mix of spices ), boterletter or banket, ( a baked pastry crust filled with a sugared almond paste filling and shaped into a letter ), letters made from chocolate, marzipan, borstplaat ( discs of fondant ); and several other types of spiced cookies: taai-taai and kruidnoten and banketstaaf.

For example, when drawing a black letter on a white background, if a pixel ideally should be half filled ( perhaps by a diagonal line from corner to corner ) it would be drawn in 50 % gray.

For each wrong guess, the next letter would be filled in and a letter deducted from their account.

Ryder sent out numerous review copies to newspapers across the country, with a cover letter filled with low key mock praise.

Dickens reportedly misheard this as an instruction as to the name which she should include in the inscription (" Emma Chisit ") and thus was born the phenomenon of " Strine " which filled the newspaper's letter columns and subsequently was the subject of a separate weekly article and, later, a series of humorous books.

The letters would be filled in one at a time until all but the last letter had been revealed or until one of the players buzzed in with a correct answer.

For each word, a letter was randomly filled in once every 1. 5 seconds.