Example Sentences

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Your letter came just after the hope of one had past—the latest Saturday post had gone, they said, and I was beginning to be as vexed as possible, looking into the long letterless Sunday.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

Also the letterless state has added itself to the deliciously simplified social state to make me taste the charming sweetness and comfort of this spot.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

Surely that were enough to give nerve to a letterless ploughboy, much less the only son of the bravest gentleman in the county of Essex.

From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James

This letter is to make up for the three letterless days.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

The son of a small tobacconist, he had grown up a sign-painter's apprentice; idle, lawless, and practically letterless until he had drifted into the night classes of the Albert League, where Ghillini sometimes lectured.

From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert