Shelley uses the letters as one of a variety of framing devices, as the story is presented through the letters of a sea captain and scientific explorer attempting to reach the north pole who encounters Victor Frankenstein and records the dying man's narrative and confessions.

Fender showed these letters to Jardine when it became clear that he was to captain the MCC in Australia during the 1932-33 tour, and he also discussed Bradman's discomfort at the Oval.

He sailed away from the Netherlands as a legal pirate captain, in the possession of pirate letters, but soon he began to ship their own account to conquer the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the African-Atlantic coast into the Caribbean to.

This story introduces the name Captain Hendrick Vanderdecken for the captain and the motifs ( elaborated by later writers ) of letters addressed to people long dead being offered to other ships for delivery, but if accepted will bring misfortune ; and the captain having sworn to round the Cape of Good Hope though it should take until the day of judgment.

The letter was usually quite large and centered ( if the sweater was a pullover ); stripes on one sleeve designated the number of letters won, with a star indicating a team captain.

*" Un Capitano sepolto nel ghiaccio " a collection of letters written by Arnaldo Berni, the Italian captain that led the conquest of San Matteo Peak, was wounded by the first Austrian bombardment and finally killed in the Italian bombardment.

Hayward had received letters from England captain Heyhoe-Flint asking for sponsorship, and after a conversation between the two in 1971, Hayward and the Women's Cricket Association agreed to organise the inaugural Women's World Cup, which was to become the first World Cup in cricket.

He received varsity letters in baseball and hockey and served each team as captain during his senior year.

The letters were addressed to his parents, his brothers Elisha and Melzar, his uncle Granville Whittlesey, and to his friends George McMurtry, J. Bayard Pruyn, Robert Forsyth Little and Herman Livingston, Jr. Also in his cabin was found a note to the captain of the Toloa leaving instructions for the disposition of the baggage left in his stateroom.

Mendonça is named by Barros as the captain of a ship that left Lisbon in 1519, and as having been given instructions to search for Marco Polo's legendary Isles of Gold, said to lie to the south of Sumatra: At the end of June of the year 1520, a ship arrived that had departed the Kingdom that year, the Captain and Pilot being Pedro Eanes, nicknamed the Frenchman, who being a diligent man and one well versed in matters of the sea, King Manuel had entrusted with letters for Diogo Lopez concerning service matters.

The Duc confronts her, but her invention of two alternate letters of opposing attitudes, which it turns out she has not written, or intends to write, enrage him and leads to her murder.

Supplemental fonts have also included alternate letters such as swashes, dingbats, and alternate character sets, complementing the regular fonts under the same family.

These type letters are taken from the alternate letters of the words " MaSoN wOrK ".

Some highways have additional letters added to their number, A is typically an alternate route, B is typically a business route, and other letters are used for bypass ( truck ) routes, connector routes, scenic routes, and spur routes.

The first three lines of each book are in red letters, and black and red ink alternate lines towards the end of books.

An alternate interpretation finds that in transcribing the letters the Zen brothers ' descendant mistook a reference to " Estlanda " for " Islanda " or Iceland, thus accounting for both the presence of those superfluous islands off Iceland and the mysterious absence of an equal number of islands off of the Shetland Islands.

There are, however, different writing theories that represent some letters or sounds differently ( e. g., the "* F " for " final V " in the chart below ), and each court reporter develops personalized " briefs " and alternate ways of writing things.

The shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate " upper " characters.

An alternate workaround is to solve some of the scrambled words, figure out the answer to the clue without all the letters, then use the " extra " letters as aids to solve the remaining scrambled words.

This companion work to the Dune novels includes an alternate novel based on Frank Herbert's original notes for Dune, letters between Frank Herbert and his editor, the original article by Frank Herbert that inspired the creation of Dune — " They Stopped The Moving Sands " — as well as unused chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah and the short stories in the Dune universe written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Small caps, old style figures, swash letters, ligatures, alternate letters, fractions, subscripts and superscripts, and ornaments were included with the Adobe Caslon Expert family.

By using stylistic alternate OpenType feature, the unlinked letters become accessible.

The term " Letter of Marque " comes from the legal letters given to captains of private vessels allowing them to wage war in the name of the King against the King's enemies.

Stevas's critics alleged that he spent too much time with a small clique of public school-educated young men who " were favoured with introductions to royalty and captains of industry, to dinners at White's, private theatrical performances at the Master's Lodge and long, affectionate letters ".

Samuel's affection towards Elisabeth can be seen prominently in letters during her severe typhoid fever and after her death, as he apologises to fellow politicians and naval captains for not attending board meetings for 4 weeks following her death and not keeping up to date with letters during her illness:

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

For example, in a typical store installation, fifty 24-in. and six 36-in. red acrylic letters were mounted against a white painted wood background.

They had to act fast, for letters were clogging the terminals.

The letters which poured forth from camps were usually written under adverse circumstances.

Most of the letters were written in the hubbub of camp, on stumps, pieces of bark, drum heads, or the knee.

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

Owing to the restrained usages characteristic of 19th-century America, these letters usually were stereotyped and revealed little depth of feeling.

Some of the letters were pungently expressive.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

all were empty except one, and that one was jammed with letters and magazines.

The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.

There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.

Lower case letters were therefore not interleaved with upper case.

To keep options available for lower case letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter " A " was placed in position 41 < sub > hex </ sub > to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

The ll and ch were also considered single letters, but in 1994 the Real Academia Española changed collating order so that ll is between lk and lm in the dictionary and ch is between cg and ci, and in 2010 the tenth congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies changed it so they were no longer letters at all < ref > Real Academia Española.