I drew one side of the letter, then the other. It looked ugly, but I ___ to make it finally. I had done it! True! I couldn’t speak with my mouth, but now I would speak through something more lasting than spoken words. That one letter was my ___ to a new world, my key ...
"‘Death, ' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else save the five dried pips...
“One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. ’From India!’ said he...
4. To put down in writing: take down a letter. take for 1. To regard as: Do you take me for a fool? 2. To consider mistakenly: Don't take silence for approval. take in 1. To receive (an amount of money), as from a business venture: The box office took in $30,000 in an...
aTHIS STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT IS AVAILABLE WITH US BY PAYMENT AGAINST PRESENTATION OF YOUR AUTHENTICATED SWIFT TO US STATING THAT THE AMOUNT OF THE SUCH CLAIM#S# REPRESENTS AND COVERS THE UNPAID BALANCE OF INDEBTEDNESS IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR GRANTING LOAN FACILITY TO THE BORROWER.[translate] ...
(I could come up with many more to continue to distract me from the point of this letter to you, I mean me. Whatever.) So, what do you think is the actual benefit of holding off to celebrate Christmas and actually embracing waiting? There’s certainly no real outward point to be prov...
Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNS ARNOLD BENNETT To my old and constant friend JOSEPH DAWSON a student profoundly versed in the human nature of the Five Towns CONTENTS The Lion's Sha
Meanwhile, a letter was delivered to my house addressed to her and stamped “PAYMENT OVERDUE” and “SECOND NOTICE” So I’m not the only one she’s scammed. (I marked it “no longer at this address,” and returned it to the sender; lots of luck to them in collecting the debt. I...
I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings. “On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad that he should go...
In two weeks time, I’ll be done proofreading my novel, having finished editing the story back in April. So far, the beta readers I’ve sent it out to have sent some very kind things. I’ll have to remember them when the rejection letter begins coming in when I send it out to li...