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  • Letter-writer Jan Heynen, advocating that the government let American deserters who refuse to serve in Iraq stay in Canada, writes that "The illegality of that war has been demonstrated many times."

    Daimnation!: Deserting the facts 2008

  • Letter-writer Bob Lidstone writes that "Simply put, a failure on Canada's part to put our boots on our Arctic tundra will inevitably result in someone else's being there."

    Sodden footware 2008

  • Jerrold's "Punch's Letters to his Son" and "Complete Letter-writer," which duly received the honour of a reprint; but he left in 1844, and straightway betook himself to the hostile camp of "The Great Gun," which aspired to be _Punch's_ chief rival, to "The Man in the Moon," and other of the Jester's numerous thorns -- for of such is the spirit of caricaturists.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • Then followed, in 1846, "_Punch's_ Complete Letter-writer," which in consequence of the odium incurred a short time before by Sir James

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • Complete Letter-writer or something, that it is correct to imitate the order of subjects, etc. observed by your correspondent.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • The choice of the Army as a profession is discussed in one of the series named "The Complete Letter-writer," which appeared in 1844.

    Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

  • I wonder if there is a Creditor's Polite Letter-writer which they all consult; their style is so exactly alike.

    The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

  • Helen, again: "And for a Letter-writer, there was nobody like her; her Letters were so beautifully worded that one wondered how human hand could have done it! they might just have been copied!"

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • I might just as well be writing a supposititious letter for a new edition of the 'Complete Letter-writer' from a lady to her female friend

    Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

  • Worked up a beautiful piece out of 'The Lightning Letter-writer for

    The Mother Norman Duncan 1893

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