"Write of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disappeared under the waste of burning for tar, for potash, and through wanton clearing, the fireplaces shrank in size; and Benjamin Franklin, even in his day, could write of ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... squeaking of another kind distinguishable from all others—it was the squeaking of Sunday boots. In the country no boots are considered Sunday boots unless they squeak. At all events, that was the case in Derbyshire at the time I write of. ...
— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton
... me. I put a whole family there, in one of my tales; and later on, threw upon its shores, and condemned to several days of rain and shellfish on its tumbled boulders, the hero of another. The ink is not yet faded; the sound of the sentences is still in my mind's ear; and I am under a spell to write of that island again. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... write of Marx's influence I have in mind what men and women in socialist meetings, in daily life here in America, hold as a faith and attribute to Marx. There is no pretension whatever to any critical study of "Das Kapital" itself. I am thinking rather of ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann
... the tinkle of triviality to descend from the stern business of this present time to write of night-caps: And yet while the discordant battles are puffing their cheeks upon the rumbling bass pipes, it is relief if there be intermingled a small, shrill treble—any slightest ...
— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks
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