Sentence examples for write by copying from inspiring English sources

It is also an account of a rebellious spirit, an intelligent and determined woman who played her hand in a palace coup, who secretly taught herself to write by copying the Koran, and who later learned both German and English.

His great-grandfather Thomas Miller, who taught himself to read and write by copying the label of a jam tin and became the first Aboriginal man on the Atherton tablelands to own a car, would have been a politician, she says.

Uniquely for a woman in the 19th-century Zanzibari court, Salme taught herself to write by copying calligraphy from the Koran on to a camel shoulder blade.

It was in university that he taught himself how to write in English by copying longhand the works of great fiction writers, starting with William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," and moving on to Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian," Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and Gabriel García Márquez's "Autumn of the Patriarch".

But you do not know which pieces were changed or re-written by the copy desk and which were not.

The centerpiece of the rebranding effort — which is its first since the motto was written by a copy supervisor at Young & Rubicam in 1972 — is the logo.

Back up your complaint in writing by enclosing copies of the evidence.

As a civilian employee in wartime government, he taught himself to write gripping and literate drama by copying in longhand Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely".

Cuneiform writing by priests, who copied incantations and old religious texts, continued into the Parthian period.

(The notes were, in fact, written by him; a copy is kept at the New York University archives and was reviewed by The Times).

Dr. James C. VanderKam, professor of Hebrew scriptures at the University of Notre Dame and a contributing editor to the scrolls project, said the reigning theory is still that many of the texts were written or copied by the monastic Essenes at Qumran, but others were probably written elsewhere and taken there as new members joined the sect.