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`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Writing systems that indicate consonants but do not indicate most vowels ( like the Aramaic one ) or indicate them with added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from later alphabets, such as Greek, that represent vowels more systematically.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

Writing in 1956 John Stewart suggested that brochs were forts put up by a military society to scan and protect the countryside and seas.

Writing B < sub > P < sub > i </ sub >, P < sub > j </ sub >, P < sub > k </ sub ></ sub >( t ) for the quadratic Bézier curve defined by points P < sub > i </ sub >, P < sub > j </ sub >, and P < sub > k </ sub >, the cubic Bézier curve can be defined as a linear combination of two quadratic Bézier curves:

* Writing by Candlelight, London: Merlin Press, 1980.

Writing in 1992, one reviewer judged that the " range, depth, and catholicity of coverage the Britannica are unsurpassed by any other general Encyclopaedia.

*" In Defense of Food Writing: A Reader ’ s Manifesto " A defense of the genre by Eric LeMay based on Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.

Writing in the Brooklyn Eagle, drama critic Arthur Pollock called it " an unusual piece of work by a director not nearly so well-known as he should be.

In Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, edited by Brandon LaBelle and Christof Migone, 7-35.

Writing played a major role in sustaining organized religion by standardizing religious ideas regardless of time or location.

Writing in Bengali, he created a library of over 2, 000 songs now known by Bengalis as ' rabindra sangeet ' whose form is primarily influenced by Hindustani classical, sub-classicals, Karnatic, western, bauls, bhatiyali and different folk songs of India.

* December 6, 2005 lecture given by Karon at the National Cathedral, entitled Wrestling with and Writing from the Heart

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, " billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable " by the end of the 21st century.

Writing to another woman by whom she had recently felt betrayed, Wollstonecraft declared, " The roses will bloom when there's peace in the breast, and the prospect of living with my Fanny gladdens my heart :— You know not how I love her.

Writing began in December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

* Vermeer Pictures ( 2005 ) concert suite for orchestra from Writing to Vermeer ( arrangement by Clark Rundell )

Writing data to a disk was done by converting 256-byte pages into sets of 5-bit or, later, 6-bit nibbles ; loading data from the disk required the reverse.

* Introduction " Writing Programs with NCURSES " by Eric S. Raymond and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim

Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, " A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west ..." If " east and west " do not betray the passage as an interpolation, Jerome spent three years ( 382 – 385 ) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians.

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

* Writing Implements & Accessories, Joyce Irene Whalley, David & Charles ISBN 0-7153-6903-2

* Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay – Charles Fuller

Writing from onboard HMS Lyon at Port Royal, Jamaica on 12 October 1731 to the Admiralty in London, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart confided, " I was a little surprised to hear of the usage Captain Jenkins met with off the Havana.

* The Iron Breadboard: Studies in New Zealand Writing, 1950000 * The Night Shift: Poems on Aspects of Love, 1957 ( with Charles Doyle, Louis Johnson and Kendrick Smithyman )

Writing to Charles I, Wentworth described Ormonde as " young, but take it from me, a very staid head ".

Writing in 1850, the British diplomat Sir Henry Charles Sirr described a visit to one of the elephants that had been used by Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last king of Kandy, to execute criminals.

' Writing for Salon. com, Charles Taylor was generally positive about the change of mood and development of characters.

Writing in The Washington Post, Harold Kneeland noted that Thunderball was " Not top Fleming, but still well ahead of the pack ", whilst Charles Poore, writing in The New York Times considered the Bond novels to be " post-Dostoevskian ventures in crime and punishment ".

In the last 87 years, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards have recognized some of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century, including Richard Anuskiewicz, Richard Avedon, Harry Bertoia, Mel Bochner, Truman Capote, Paul Davis, Frances Farmer, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Maynard, Joyce Carol Oates, Phillip Pearlstein, Peter S. Beagle, Sylvia Plath, Robert Redford, Jean Stafford, Mozelle Thompson, Ned Vizzini, Kay WalkingStick, Andy Warhol, and Charles White.

* Chandrasekhar, S. " A Dirty, Filfthy Book ": The Writing of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and British Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial.

Margolyes is a supporter of Sense ( the National Deafblind and Rubella Association ) and was the host at the first Sense Creative Writing Awards, held at the Charles Dickens Museum in London in December 2006, where she read a number of works written by talented deafblind people.

Behind the south gallery are the Writing Cabinet and Antechamber of Elector Charles Theodore, which were created with the broadening of the gallery wings.

Writing in Nature, ecologist Charles S. Cockell of the British Antarctic Survey and Dale Stokes ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography ) describe how hypoliths reported to date ( until 2004 ) had been found under quartz, which is one of the most common translucent rocks.

" ( From " Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 " by Charles E. Kirkpatrick )

The quotes from the " Victory Plan of 1941 " and Captain Forrest Sherman are from " Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 " by Charles E. Kirkpatrick.

Writing in The New York Times, Charles Poore reported that Bradbury " writes in a style that seems to have been nourished on the poets and fabulists of the Irish Literary Renaissance ," praising him as being " wonderfully adept at getting to the heart of his story without talking all day long about it and around it.

* Writing in a Different Language: The Example of Charles Sealsfield by Donald G. Daviau

Writing in 1955 he suggests that someday Robert A. Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, and Dwight D. Eisenhower may some day be added to the list.

SFRA book publications include the 1988 anthology, Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology, edited by Patricia S. Warrick, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, the 1996 collection, Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Reading Anthology, edited by David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolf, the 1999 work, Pilgrims & Pioneers: The History and Speeches of the Science Fiction Research Association Award Winners by Hal W. Hall and Daryl F. Mallett with substantial contributions by Fiona Kelleghan, and the 2010 anthology, " Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre ," edited by Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, Patrick B.

Davis, Bowling Green State University, Foothill College, the Colorado College, Rice University, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, San José State University, where he was appointed the 2002 Lurie Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, and Charles University in the Czech Republic under the auspices of the Prague Summer Programs.

* His script on the 50th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's solo crossing of the Atlantic was reprinted in the first few editions of the journalism text Writing News for Broadcast, published by the Columbia University Press.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore, after praising the book as " crisply written, amusing, informative and thought-provoking ", commented that " it is an agony not to be able to use English properly.

Writing special material for Carol Burnett and Brooke Shields, among others and working with Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog, Charles shared an office with Jim Henson, who Charles considered ” a genius ”.