Sentence examples for manuscript and a from inspiring English sources

His hands that have foraged in everything now hold a manuscript and a compass because he's playing at being literate, pretending to be a visitor to the city.

In standard contracts, the author receives half up front, a quarter on acceptance of the manuscript and a quarter on publication, though that model is changing, said the literary agent Eric Simonoff, whose clients include James Frey and Jhumpa Lahiri.

The indictment charged the three with conspiracy to sell 2 of the 10 treasures: the Samuhel Gospels, a gold, silver and jewel-encrusted 9th-century manuscript, and a 16th-century prayer book that is also of artistic and historical importance.

A handwritten manuscript and a typescript of a Margaret Drabble novel are on display, allowing scholars to trace the evolution of every paragraph, but highlighting how the digital world is creating its own problems.

And when hard work finally leads to triumph — Godwin's agent sells "The Perfectionists" on the basis of 48 pages of manuscript and a lavish lunch — her excitement quickly yields to anxiety.

In one neat trick Dr. Greene, sitting in a dark diner, opens an old Einstein manuscript, and a cloud of miniature galaxies floats out, making him look a bit like a cosmic Harry Potter.

MT and JÅ prepared the manuscript and A-KH and PA reviewed.

It is believed that the recently deceased writer Pavel Pulin has produced just such a manuscript, and an operation is organized to intercept it.

The first author of this manuscript and an independent professional translator translated the SHAPS into Chinese.

TL participated in the draft of the manuscript and an interpretation of the results.

On occasion, James Moffat would turn up at the NEL offices, pissed out of his skull, and run up the stairs to drop off a manuscript and cadge a couple of quid for the taxi, which would be waiting downstairs".