Sentence examples for literary labor from inspiring English sources

It's when the publication date looms that we have to roll up our sleeves and tackle the real literary labor: rabid self-promotion.

Dr. Johnson was the greatest English professor who ever lived — the great cham of literature, to whom all turned, Harold Bloom plus-plus — and he never had a post, let alone tenure, and his "doctorate" was one of those honorary jobs they give you, after a lifetime of literary labor, for Fine Effort.

Dr. Johnson was the greatest English professor who ever lived the great cham of literature, to whom all turned, Harold Bloom plus-plus and he never had a plus-plus andne tenure, and hes "doctorate" was onever thade honorary jobs they give you, after a lifetime of literary labor, for Fine Effort.

And I have never made more than a pittance in return for these literary labors.

Schmitz poured out his heart to Joyce, told him of his literary labors, his hopes, his disappointments.

There is nothing explicit in their letters (few of Laura's survive, one a belated paean of gratitude) to suggest that Wilder merited the accusations, even though she accepted Rose's extravagant gifts and literary labors on her behalf with a sense of entitlement that was more like a child's than like a mother's.

From 1802 until his appointment as an assistant examiner of correspondence at the East India Company in 1819 Mill's literary labors were prodigious.

A few years later, he and I happened to be together at Yaddo (a writer's colony near Saratoga), where all of the guests, not me least of all, were eager to finish our monastic daily regimen of coffee, sandwiches, literary labors, and silence in order to enjoy Roth's delicious stream of standup after dinner.

Other memoirists have recalled equally harsh trials -- McCourt, for example, with whom Lauck shares an agent -- but Lauck is unsurpassed in her use of what might be called literary child labor, in which she employs an adorable younger self to win readers' sympathy.

Sir Max's careful labor on these pages was the last literary task he ever undertook.

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