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letters

/ ˈlɛtəz /

noun

literary knowledge, ability, or learning
a man of letters
literary culture in general
an official title, degree, etc, indicated by an abbreviation
letters after one's name

He established letters pages to communicate with readers, his side of the discussion bopping with hepcat lingo.

Gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.

But then, I would look at the letters that people have sent.

If the embargo were effective, the Castro brothers would have been doing Love Letters with the Duvaliers years ago.

Red letters scrawled underneath seem to be Ramone thinking aloud: “I wonder but I think so.”

The remark comes to mind while reading The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer.

As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.

Letters coming from him from time to time prove that he was alive and well at least until three months ago.

The book contains many words in which some though not all of the letters are in italics, for example Swordsman.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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