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`` 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 ".

writes and cricket
* Joseph of Exeter writes the first account of a sport resembling cricket.
He also writes on cricket.
In terms of the advancement of Indian cricket, Bose writes that " Gilligan's influence was immense ".
As a consequence of this victory, writes Plum Warner, the " fame of Australian cricket was established for all time.
" In his history of West Indies cricket, Michael Manley writes that league cricket at this time was intense and unrelenting, but: " it was in this special atmosphere of League cricket that Constantine was supreme.
He writes regularly about cricket and occasionally rugby union for The Observer newspaper.
" If Vizzy had been content with being such a cricket sponsor ", writes Mihir Bose in A History of Indian Cricket, " like Sir Horatio Mann in the eighteenth century, or Sir Julien Cahn in the twentieth, his name would be one of the most revered in Indian cricket.
Cashman writes that he had an encyclopedic memory which enabled him to recall cricket score sheets ar will and was also a ' great eater and talker ', ' who could liven the passing hour with an unbroken monologue on any subject from philosophy ... to the art of seasoning a good curry '.
Guha writes that he " brought to cricket broadcasting a rich, fruity voice and a fund of anecdotes.

writes and had
It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.
`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.
In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.
The 4th century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands.
Church, Ministry and Sacraments in the New Testament Paternoster Press: 1993, p. 94f </ ref > He also points out that when Ignatius writes to the Romans, there is no mention of a bishop of the Roman Church, " which we may suppose had not not yet adopted the monarchical episcopate.
Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker ; Simon Louvish writes that the company was his " training ground ".
This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.
While he was " slender and mild-mannered ", she had dark good looks that " must have seemed to him exotic ", writes Easton.
He writes, " Sure, we had relatives who were caught up in the Holocaust.
Cézanne ’ s work had been mocked at the time by the others in the school, and, writes Rewald, in his later years Cézanne " never forgot the sympathy and understanding with which Pissarro encouraged him.
As he writes: " One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.
Biographer Christopher Sandford writes, " Over the years, most British rockers had tried, one way or another, to become black-by-extension.
By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.
The town is first mentioned in 742 under the name of " Erphesfurt ": in that year, Saint Boniface writes Pope Zachary to tell him that he had established three dioceses in Thuringia, one of which " in a place called Erphesfurt, which for a long time has been inhabited by pagan natives.
Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).
Kumar writes: " EPR argued that they had proved that ... B can have simultaneously exact values of position and momentum.
Irenaeus also writes that " The Elders witness to this, who in Asia conferred with John the Lord's disciple, to the effect that John had delivered these things unto them: for he abode with them until the times of Trajan.
' There was a hollow space at the center of Kosinski that had resulted from denying his past ,' Sloan writes, ' and his whole life had become a race to fill in that hollow space before it caused him to implode, collapsing inward upon himself like a burnt-out star.
Plutarch writes that many Romans found the triumph held following Caesar's victory to be in poor taste, as those defeated in the civil war had not been foreigners, but instead fellow Romans.

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