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It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy.

"See how near I may have been to another sort of life, " he wrote of himself at 20 when he had been on the point of auditioning as an actor.

Or, more fearfully, he wrote of his 12-year-old self: "I might easily have been. . . a little robber or a little vagabond. "

GEORGE ORWELL wrote of the Ministry of Truth (in his novel, "1984" ) that it was " startlingly different from any other object in sight" .

Benjamin Franklin wrote of his desire to see the Mufti of Istanbul preach Islam to Americans from a pulpit in Philadelphia.

Earlier this summer, Jo Thompson, a mother of five, wrote of her dream to travel overland to Australia. Now she is ready to set off.

Culbertson also wrote of his anguish at being separated from his friends and family at such a tragic time.

Balzac wrote of Cooper that "in his hands the art of the pen has never come closer to the art of the brush. "

"Here everything was simple, clear and unconfused, " he wrote of his observations, the beginning of modern neuroscience.

Jude wrote of it in the first century, some preach such a false gospel today.

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

By the end of his premiership, Blair wrote of Murdoch in his memoirs that he "came to have a grudging respect and even a liking for him" .

When George Washington wrote of an American "Union" with "a government for the whole, " his vision was radical, perhaps foolhardy.

Later, Lincoln wrote of that period with shame, saying that he had lost the "gem of my character. "

For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

As the economist John Kenneth Galbraith once wrote, 'of all the classes, the wealthy are the most noticed and the least studied. '

In his e-mails, Reyes wrote of giving $100, 000 to Mr Correa's campaign and of a later meeting with his interior minister.

Von Post wrote of their love affair, which included a visit from him to Sweden, in a book called "Love, Jack" in 1997.

I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South and understood little when people spoke or wrote of sunlight on white walls.

The Economist once wrote of an ex-member of the firm: "He suffers the lack of self-doubt common in former McKinsey consultants. "

Ziauddin Sardar, in a must-read article, wrote of the clergy's efforts to battle this epidemic by promoting meta, or temporary marriages.

"Uncertainty regarding interventionism could affect prices in coming months, " they wrote of the election risks.

It turns out that the author who wrote of time machines, invisibility and utopia was too conservative in his estimation of English.

And the prophet Jeremiah wrote of the Lord: "You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart" (29: 13).

Several times in his journals, Jeffs wrote of God telling him to take more and more young girls 'who can be worked with and easily taught'.

They say it is the highest place in the world, Marco Polo wrote of climbing the Pamir mountains from the Afghanistan side.

Not long ago, I wrote of my disappointment that New Tristram lacked the palpable dread its reputation led one to expect.

Gordimer is an atheist, although once wrote of considering herself to have a "religious temperament" .

The ancient Greeks wrote of vampires (or vrykolakas), malevolent undead creatures that stalked the living, bringing death and disease.

He wrote of a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty.

"Of course they'll decline the invitation, " one wrote of the invited billionaires on the Sina. com postings board.

In September, the World Bank wrote of "remarkable progress on equitable growth, fighting poverty and achieving good social indicators" .

In his books in the 1990s Bauman wrote of this shift as being a shift from 'modernity' to 'post-modernity'.

"his moral character was publicly acknowledged, " as Beethoven arrogantly wrote of himself.

"You can find it in the herb section of some large supermarket chains or specialty stores, " she recently wrote of lemongrass.

"I really think it's my best piece to date, " he wrote of it at the time.

He wrote of their dreams: her patriotic dream, their humanitarian and scientific ones.

Jack London and George Orwell both wrote of these workingmen's hostels.

The lintel of banner is the China Taoist Association chairman Ren Farong long wrote of " righteousness and business" four characters.

The author of the sentence wrote of "oral traditions" being woven together.

A half-century later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating "a distinct species of mankind. "

Did these authors really think the men and women they wrote of were like that?

"The most expensive orgy in history was over, " as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the 1929 Wall Street crash.

They wrote of creatures with heads like deer that stood upright like men and hopped like frogs.

Author Paul Ens wrote of several Felucian colonies in his 2005 website, Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune.

Sport, as Hugh McIlvanney famously wrote of football, is a "fantastic metaphor for life" .

In the first century A. D. , Pliny the Elder wrote of using sea urchin ashes to treat baldness.

"Fundamentals couldn't be much worse, " he wrote of the US mortgage market.

wrote of patriatism, progress, democracy and science.

Because of this experience he wrote of the faithfulness of God: "You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble" (Ps. 59: 16).

He also wrote of having reviewed a book I published in 2004 called The Empty Cradle, and cited some statistics from it.

The 300 B. C. , qu yuan was exiled to hunan wrote of chu.

He talked and wrote of fighting more than he did it.

"His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me, " Obama wrote of Malcolm in "Dreams from My Father. "

Laurie Penny wrote of how they've been treated in the UK as they fight desperately against the government's austerity agenda

Hegesippus, a 2nd century orthodox Christian historian, wrote of James the Just, the brother of Jesus

he wrote of how he secretly read history books during a civil law class