litterateur

• If I were to take up the cudgels once more, it would be rather against these unfortunate enlightened people than against the intentionally retrograde Jesuits of literature, with whom one need not trouble one's self unless one wants to talk for victory as a litterateur, which has never entered my mind. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
• You have no children, be therefore a litterateur, an artist, a master; that is logical, that is your compensation, your happiness, and your strength. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• By spelling "litterateur" and "basilica," Christopher Smith, of Monett, became the champion of the 2009 Bee - a fifth grade student from Trinity Lutheran School in Freistatt. —  Carthage Press Homepage RSS
• It was easy for a litterateur like Sydney Smith in those days to extract passages and to give them such headings as "Brother Carey's Piety at Sea," "Hatred of the Natives to the Gospel." —  Life of William Carey
• Success attended this further adventure, proportioned to its unquestionable merit--the "Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland," which emanated from the publishing house of the Messrs Black of Edinburgh, confirmed and widely extended the reputation of the author From handling the workman's tools, a sudden transition to the constant use of the pen of the litterateur is, under the most favourable circumstances, not to be desired. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

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