Sentence examples for huge manuscript from inspiring English sources

In 1947, he returned to China, having sent Harvard a draft of a huge manuscript.

By John McPhee Robert Gottlieb could read and critique a huge manuscript overnight.

In the 1970s, he interviewed a number of the epidemic's surviving victims and collected his data in a huge manuscript that's been gathering dust for years.

He would die with the huge manuscript stacked on the mantelpiece of his bedroom, in Jean Cocteau's words like a watch ticking on the wrist of a dead soldier.

I put the huge manuscript on my desk and read all day long, taking occasional breaks for tea and white rice, which were always on offer in the kitchen.

Imagine another day, almost a decade later, when "a huge manuscript on French cooking" by "three totally unknown ladies with no particular credentials," twice rejected and overlong, lands on the desk of the same young woman, now working as an editor at Knopf in New York.

Katharine continued working half time for The New Yorker; every day, her secretary in the office mailed her a huge packet of manuscripts, galleys, letters, and books, and every day Katharine mailed back a packet of marked-up manuscripts and galleys, memos, and opinions.

The caves -- stretching in tiers for about a mile across the light gold face of Singing Sand Mountain -- had long been abandoned and were largely unknown until about 1900, when a Daoist monk discovered a huge trove of manuscripts in what is today known as the Library Cave.

After Lord died in 2002, he bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England his huge collection of manuscripts, original letters and Titanic memorabilia, which he had gathered during his life and used to write A Night to Remember.

After Vivaldi's death, his huge collection of musical manuscripts, consisting mainly of autograph scores of his own works, was bound into 27 large volumes.

Locking Moor Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS24; 01934 635227; helicoptermuseum.co.uk CTB The surgeon William Hunter (1718-83) bequeathis hugehuge collections of paintings, manuscripts, books and zoological specimens to his alma mater, Glasgow University, which houses them in a museum and art gallery named after the donor.