A quiet word here, a crisply phrased letter there … public displays of dissent are fine for protesters or journalists, but have not traditionally been the sort of thing respectable City folk indulge in.
In contrast, the typescript of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time – on display with the judiciously phrased letter asking if he felt minded to present it – is poignantly immaculate.
However, as was his wont even when provoked, Lincoln stepped back from his emotions and, assuring Fr?nt that he was writing "in a spirit of caution and not of censure," sent by special courier on Sept. 2 an urgent but mildly phrased letter to Fr?nt.
However, as was his wont even when provoked, Lincoln stepped back from his emotions and, assuring Frémont that he was writing "in a spirit of caution and not of censure," sent by special courier on Sept. 2, an urgent but mildly phrased letter to Frémont.
But embedded three times in this phrase are letters that spell "atalanta," the very breed of butterfly that flies before Shade at the end of his poem.
"Now no one is safe" was a frequently repeated phrase in letters between Salem citizens, Miller says in his autobiography, "Timebends".
"There are phrases and letters, part of a sentence in another sentence, all reworked," she said.
The rondeau followed the pattern ABaAabAB; A (a) and B (b) represent repeated musical phrases; capital letters indicate repetition of text in a refrain, while lowercase letters indicate new text.
The phrase "red-letter day," incidentally, comes from the 15th century, when -- according to a Derivation answer card -- holy days were marked in red or purple ink on the calendar.
Growing up, I didn't want to admit that sometimes I repeated a word or phrase or letter before getting it out.
