Sentence examples for ordinary letter from inspiring English sources

(A classic example is writing in invisible ink between the lines of an ordinary letter).

Their idea was inspired in part by cryptography during World War II, when German spies reduced messages to a microdot that they pasted over a period in an ordinary letter.

He wrote a painfully ordinary letter, posted it, and had no reply, which was unsurprising, for the address she had given him was Scottish and she was in the Caribbean.

Using only charcoal and eraser on ordinary letter paper, Ms. Nelligan has produced an extraordinary account of the islands, distilling coastlines, rocks, trees, sea, skies and weather almost to abstraction, while restricting her palette to the blacks, grays and whites that seem perfectly keyed to Cranberry's reticent Maine character.

(Johnson) EMILY NELLIGAN AND MARVIN BILECK: 'CRANBERRY ISLAND, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS' Using only charcoal and eraser on ordinary letter paper, Emily Nelligan has for more than 50 years focused on a tiny part of Maine called Great Cranberry Island, one of several specks off the coast near Mount Desert.

(Glueck) EMILY NELLIGAN AND MARVIN BILECK: 'CRANBERRY ISLAND, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS' Using only charcoal and eraser on ordinary letter paper, Emily Nelligan has for more than 50 years focused on a tiny part of Maine called Great Cranberry Island, one of several specks off the coast near Mount Desert.

Obviously, these weren't ordinary letters.

They were ordinary letters, addressed with ordinary printing and ordinary stamps.

It wants to storm the last bastion of post-office monopolies (carrying ordinary letters).

Mail collected from branch post offices and street mailboxes, although for the most part made up of ordinary letters and cards, also contains small parcels, newspapers, magazines, and large envelopes.

Health officials blundered next in assuming that ordinary letters that had simply touched intentionally poisoned letters or contaminated postal machinery could not become contaminated enough themselves to pose a hazard.