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2003 single by Mark Schultz
"Letters From War" is a single by singer/songwriter Mark Schultz on his third album Stories & Songs. Inspired by Schultz' family, this Contemporary Christian
Letters_from_War
2006 American film by Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 American Japanese-language war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring
Letters_from_Iwo_Jima
2016 film
Letters from War (Portuguese: Cartas da Guerra) is a 2016 Portuguese drama film directed by Ivo M. Ferreira and based on the letter collection D'este viver
Letters_from_War_(film)
2004 novel by Patti Sherlock
Letters From Wolfie is a children's novel by Patti Sherlock. It is about Mark Cantrell, a boy living in the United States during the Vietnam War, and his
Letters_from_Wolfie
Book by Mark Twain
Letters from Hawaii is a collection of 25 letters that Mark Twain wrote in 1866 from the Hawaiian Islands as a special correspondent for The Sacramento
Letters_from_Hawaii
2016 British film
Letters from Baghdad is a 2016 documentary film about the life and work of Gertrude Bell. It was executive produced by Tilda Swinton, who also provides
Letters_from_Baghdad
Book of essays by Mark Twain (c. 1909)
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) edited by Bernard DeVoto. It comprises essays written
Letters_from_the_Earth
1992 children's novel by Karen Hesse
for Letters from Rifka, including the Sydney Taylor Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Phoenix Award. During the Russian Civil War of
Letters_from_Rifka
American hard rock band
20, 2017. LettersFromTheFire (May 31, 2017). "Letters From The Fire At War, Official Video". YouTube. Retrieved June 1, 2017. "Letters From The Fire"
Letters_from_the_Fire
Book by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782. The
Letters from an American Farmer
Letters_from_an_American_Farmer
German anthology published 1950
Last Letters from Stalingrad (German: Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an anthology of letters from German soldiers who took part in the Battle for Stalingrad
Last_Letters_from_Stalingrad
1976 Mexican film
Letters from Marusia (Spanish: Actas de Marusia) is a 1975 Mexican film directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín. It was nominated for the Academy Award
Letters_from_Marusia
Historical archives
Center for American War Letters is a center established in 2013 after historian Andrew Carroll donated more than 100,000 war letters to Chapman University
Center for American War Letters
Center_for_American_War_Letters
Series of essays by founding father John Dickinson
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and published under
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Letters_from_a_Farmer_in_Pennsylvania
1937 book by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
Testament". Letters from Iceland is categorised under the "Inter-war pastorals" style of writing, where poets are attached to an imaginary countryside from where
Letters_from_Iceland
1991 film
shows footage from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, overlaid with readings of letters from US troops fighting
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Memorial:_Letters_from_American_Soldiers
1999 book by Frances Stonor Saunders
Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (US title The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters) is a 1999 book by the British historian
Who_Paid_the_Piper?
Legendary war in Greek mythology
against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology
Trojan_War
The Letters from the Segovia Woods denote two sets of letters Philip II of Spain sent to his Regent Margaret of Parma, rejecting requests to abolish the
Letters from the Segovia Woods
Letters_from_the_Segovia_Woods
1986 film by Konstantin Lopushansky
Dead Man's Letters (Russian: Письма мёртвого человека, romanized: Pis'ma myortvogo cheloveka), also known as Letters from a Dead Man, is a 1986 Soviet
Dead_Man's_Letters
Messages from victims of Soviet deportations
Birch bark letters from Siberia were written by people deported to Soviet Gulag labor camps. Often they had only birch bark for writing letters, especially
Birch bark letters from Siberia
Birch_bark_letters_from_Siberia
1948 book by Mervyn Peake
children, Letters from a Lost Uncle by Mervyn Peake is a combination of pencil drawing and typed manuscript. It is written in the form of letters from a lost
Letters_from_a_Lost_Uncle
Letters from 74 Rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody is a book of short stories in the form of letters by William Saroyan that
Letters_from_74_rue_Taitbout
Poem by Bruce Catton
Names from the War is a long poem about the American Civil War by Civil War historian Bruce Catton, published in 1960. The context is the Civil War Centennial
Names_from_the_War
Series of letters by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Türkei aus den Jahren 1835 bis 1839) or Letters from Turkey for short, is the name given to the series of letters written by Helmuth von Moltke during his
Letters_from_Turkey_(Moltke)
1974 children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien
Letters from Father Christmas, formerly known as The Father Christmas Letters, are a collection of letters written and illustrated by J. R. R. Tolkien
The_Father_Christmas_Letters
Book of letters by Tove Jansson
Letters from Tove is a collection of the Finland Swedish artist and author Tove Jansson's letters, written over some 50 years of her working life. The
Letters_from_Tove
Portuguese actor
screenwriter and actor. His 2016 film Letters from War was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Letters from War (2016) Equinócio (2018) Empire
Ivo_Ferreira
1987 American documentary film by Bill Couturié
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is a 1987 American documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. The
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Dear_America:_Letters_Home_from_Vietnam
Angolan actor
the roles in the films Letters from War, Liberdade and The Hero. "Orlando Sérgio films". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October
Orlando_Sérgio
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, eds., Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home (2006). "On the other hand, many of the recent immigrants
American_Civil_War
1904–1905 conflict in East Asia
Dunn devoted an epistolary poem in verse to the naval war in The Donkey's Ears: Politovsky's Letters Home (2000). This follows the voyage of the Russian
Russo-Japanese_War
2023 film by Thea Sharrock
Wicked Little Letters is a 2023 British period black comedy mystery film directed by Thea Sharrock, written by Jonny Sweet and starring Olivia Colman
Wicked_Little_Letters
1990–1991 conflict in the Middle East
products from Iraq and Kuwait. A coalition began a military buildup in the Persian Gulf region. The broadest military alliance since World War II, its
Gulf_War
1812–1815 conflict in North America
Wars. The United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did
War_of_1812
1918 song written by Ballard MacDonald and Joe Goodwin and composed by James F. Hanley
"Three Wonderful Letters from Home" is a World War I song written by Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin and composed by James F. Hanley. The song was first
Three Wonderful Letters from Home
Three_Wonderful_Letters_from_Home
1942 Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis
goes on to describe and discuss sex, love, pride, gluttony, and war in successive letters. Lewis, an Oxford and Cambridge scholar himself, suggests in his
The_Screwtape_Letters
1967 war between Israel and Arab states
"Six-Day War" in the Encyclopaedia of the Orient All State Department documents related to the crisis Letters from David Ben-Gurion on the Six-Day War Archived
Six-Day_War
Non-fiction book
assisted by Christopher Tolkien. The selection, from a large mass of materials, contains 354 letters. These were written between October 1914, when Tolkien
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
The_Letters_of_J._R._R._Tolkien
American musician
From Home (2026) Mark Schultz; J.L. Bibb (2005). Stories Behind the Songs. ISBN 9781933876009. Mark Schultz; Travis Thrasher (2011). Letters from War
Mark_Schultz_(musician)
1996 Canadian film
Letters from Home is a 15-minute-long short film by Canadian director Mike Hoolboom. It follows a multitude of figures from the Toronto art community
Letters_from_Home_(film)
1835 pamphlet based on Charles Darwin's letters
Extracts from Letters to Henslow, taken from ten letters Charles Darwin wrote to John Stevens Henslow from South America during the second survey expedition
Extracts from Letters to Henslow
Extracts_from_Letters_to_Henslow
Rare surviving 15th-century writings
lawsuit. The Cely Letters are primary sources of information about the English economy and English society at the end of the Wars of the Roses. Plumpton
Cely_Letters
Protracted argument or discussion through printed medium
A pamphlet war is a protracted argument or discussion through printed media, especially between the time the printing press became common, and when state
Pamphlet_war
1864 letters by Konstanty Kalinowski
The Letters from Beneath the Gallows (Belarusian: Лісты з-пад шыбеніцы, romanized: Listy z-pad šybienicy) are two letters written by Belarusian and Polish
Letters from Beneath the Gallows
Letters_from_Beneath_the_Gallows
1846–1848 conflict between Mexico and the United States
Congress Letters of Winfield Scott including official reports from the front sent to the Secretary of War Franklin Pierce's Journal on the March from Vera
Mexican–American_War
2006 film score by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Letters from Iwo Jima (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score to the 2006 film Letters from Iwo Jima directed and produced by Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima (soundtrack)
Letters_from_Iwo_Jima_(soundtrack)
Letter collection by Ovid
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea) is a work of Ovid, in four books. It is a collection of letters describing Ovid's exile in Tomis (modern-day
Epistulae_ex_Ponto
1973 American TV series or program
Letters from Three Lovers is a 1973 made-for-television drama film directed by John Erman. An ABC Movie of the Week and a sequel to The Letters (1973)
Letters_from_Three_Lovers
2025-03-11. "Pomegranate in the Treatment of Respiratory Diseases". Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2025-03-11. File:PikiWiki Israel 29454
List_of_Latin_phrases_(P)
2003 book
Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa is a 2003 book about Anne Frank and her pen pal, Juanita Wagner. It is written by Susan Goldman
Searching_for_Anne_Frank
Book by Duncan Barrett
Men of Letters: The Post Office Heroes who Fought the Great War is a book by Duncan Barrett, co-author of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides and editor of The
Men_of_Letters
Walpole and his successors whig ministries. Particular attention to Cato's Letters and then looked at radical thought in Ireland, and then at radical dissenters
The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman
The_Eighteenth_Century_Commonwealthman
1982 undeclared Argentina–United Kingdom war
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week war in the South Atlantic in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over possession
Falklands_War
Three related alphabets used to write Georgian
systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written horizontally from left to right. Of the three scripts
Georgian_scripts
American dramatist (born 1969)
as the editor of the New York Times best sellers Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters, which later inspired the documentary of the same
Andrew_Carroll
Collection of 15th century writings of the Paston family
other important documents. The letters are a noted primary source for information about life in England during the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudor
Paston_Letters
provisionally written in lowercase letters (except for the first word, geographical and personal names). Macedonian war of succession (393–392 BCE), after
List of wars of succession in Europe
List_of_wars_of_succession_in_Europe
Military term for a captive of the enemy
"prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a range of reasons. These may include isolating them from enemy combatants
Prisoner_of_war
Spoken alphabet for radio communication
for the letters of the Latin alphabet and the Arabic digits. It is most commonly used in radio communication, where the usual names of the letters are likely
NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Military conflict between France and Great Britain from 1778 to 1783
The Anglo-French War, also known as the War of 1778 or the Bourbon War in Britain, was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain, sometimes
Anglo-French_War_(1778–1783)
Congress were deceived on the eve of the War of 1812. Henry left the United States for France shortly before the letters were made public on March 9, 1812 in
Henry_letters
Mayor of Biruta
Biruta-(Beirut) of the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. Yapa-Hadda is referenced in 13 letters of the Amarna letters 382–letter corpus, and specifically
Yapa-Hadda
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
since early in his career and from 1931 it became clear that there would be another European war. Hemingway predicted war would happen in the late 1930s
Ernest_Hemingway
War crimes committed by the Empire of Japan
11 (1/4): 128. 2002. Keene, Donald (1975). Cary, Otis (ed.). War-wasted Asia: Letters, 1945-46 (illustrated ed.). Kodansha International. p. 39. ISBN 0870112570
Japanese_war_crimes
Book by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 is a book composed of letters to and from Ernest Hemingway found at his Cuban home after his death, edited
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961
Ernest_Hemingway:_Selected_Letters,_1917–1961
Series of civil wars in England (1455–1487)
Wakefield and the Wars of the Roses (PDF), p. 14, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2016, retrieved 30 June 2009 Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner
Wars_of_the_Roses
Native alphabet of the Korean language
North and South Korea. Modern Korean language orthographies use 24 basic letters, which are called jamo. The 14 consonants can be combined amongst themselves
Hangul
Uppercase or lowercase
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally
Letter_case
1920s miscarriage of justice in England
series of letters sent to numerous residents of Littlehampton, in southern England, over a three-year period between 1920 and 1923. The letters, which contained
Littlehampton_libels
2003 British TV series or programme
professor Hew Strachan. (Additionally, a tie-in book of participant letters and diaries — A War in Words (2003) by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis — was published
The First World War (TV series)
The_First_World_War_(TV_series)
Non-fiction memoir by Helen Waldstein Wilkes
Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Helen Waldstein Wilkes, first published in December 2009
Letters_from_the_Lost
Hypothetical future global conflict
"Science: World War III Preview?". Time. 10 July 1944. Archived from the original on 20 May 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2017. "Letters, Oct. 1, 1945". Time
World_War_III
Star Wars species, containing the names of fictional sentient species from the Star Wars franchise beginning with the letters A through E. Star Wars is
List of Star Wars species (A–E)
List_of_Star_Wars_species_(A–E)
Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq is a 2004-hour-long HBO documentary by Bill Couturié about U.S. soldiers killed
Last_Letters_Home
the 1950s E.C. Comics from which all "Tales From the Crypt" stories are drawn. Zemeckis immediately saw the story—with its World War I setting and a plot
List of Tales from the Crypt episodes
List_of_Tales_from_the_Crypt_episodes
Orders for action in the event of nuclear attack on UK
The letters of last resort are four identically worded handwritten letters from the prime minister of the United Kingdom to the commanding officers of
Letters_of_last_resort
Internationally, the war elicited reactions from nation-states, faith leaders, and global governance bodies, as well as protests, unrest, and coverage from global media
Reactions to the 2026 Iran war
Reactions_to_the_2026_Iran_war
1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the
Winter_War
U.S Armed conflict in South Asia
The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)
1869 literary work by Leo Tolstoy
histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars as well as letters, journals, autobiographies, and biographies of Napoleon and other
War_and_Peace
1927–1949 civil war in China
intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory that led to the Kuomintang's retreat to Taiwan on 7 December 1949. The war is generally divided
Chinese_Civil_War
Museum in Massachusetts, United States, sold and closed in 2019
1999 as the Museum of World War II, it adopted its final name in 2016 to reflect its international collection of letters, documents, and artifacts. The
The International Museum of World War II
The_International_Museum_of_World_War_II
Star Wars species, containing the names of fictional sentient species from the Star Wars franchise beginning with the letters U through Z. Star Wars is
List of Star Wars species (U–Z)
List_of_Star_Wars_species_(U–Z)
2005 compilation book by Andrew Carroll
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters—and One Man's Search to Find Them, published in 2005 by Scribner is a book compiled
Behind_the_Lines_(book)
1807–1814 war against Napoleon in Iberia
The War in the Peninsula (6 vols). London: John Murray (Vol 1), and private (Vols 2–6). Retrieved 3 May 2021. Neale, Adam (1809). "Appendix". Letters from
Peninsular_War
Israeli military officer (1946–1976)
However, feeling restless at being away from Israel, especially with Israel skirmishing against Egypt during the War of Attrition, he transferred to Jerusalem's
Yonatan_Netanyahu
American actor and filmmaker (born 1930)
not appear, such as the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the war film Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations
Clint_Eastwood
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreign
Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
This is a list of wars of succession. Note: Wars of succession in transcontinental states are mentioned under the continents where their capital city was
List_of_wars_of_succession
Jewish rebellion against Roman rule (132–136 CE)
(132–136 CE), also known as the Bar Kokhba War, the War of Betar, and the Third (or Second) Jewish–Roman War, was the last and most devastating of three
Bar_Kokhba_Revolt
Series of letters and telegrams between the German and Russian emperors
correspondence was a series of letters and telegrams relayed between Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia from 1894 to the immediate
Willy–Nicky_correspondence
2024 anime fantasy film
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a 2024 anime fantasy film directed by Kenji Kamiyama from a screenplay by Jeffrey Addiss & Will Matthews
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_War_of_the_Rohirrim
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
met him in Oxford after the war and noticed he had changed, but was staggered to find him the author of The Screwtape Letters. When I knew him I can only
C._S._Lewis
1979–1989 armed conflict in South Asia
The Soviet–Afghan War took place in Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 47-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw
Soviet–Afghan_War
Armed Philippine-American conflict (1899–1902)
the war. In 1899, the American Anti-Imperialist League published a pamphlet of letters allegedly written by U.S. soldiers. When some of these letters circulated
Philippine–American_War
1956 British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt
Crisis, also known as the second Arab–Israeli war, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion
Suez_Crisis
Russia was one of the major belligerents in World War I: from August 1914 to December 1917, it fought on the Entente's side against the Central Powers
Russia_in_World_War_I
American historian (born 1962)
seven books on history and politics. In 2019, she started publishing Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter that chronicles current events in the
Heather_Cox_Richardson
1945 Italian film
lettere anonime, internationally released as Two Anonymous Letters, is a 1945 Italian war-melodrama film directed by Mario Camerini. For this film Andrea
Two_Anonymous_Letters
LETTERS FROM-WAR
LETTERS FROM-WAR
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English : patronymic from Lever 3.
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African, American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, German, Jamaican, Latin
Fortified Place; From Leicester
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Translation of French Lemieux.English
Translation of French Lemieux.English : nickname from Old English bētere ‘fighter’, ‘beater’. Reaney suggests it may also be a short form of the various occupational names ending with -better, for example Leadbetter.German (Bavarian) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of rosaries, from Bavarian better ‘rosary’ (from beten ‘to pray’).
Boy/Male
Latin American English
From the Legion's camp.
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Leathers.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheat, from Middle English, Anglo-French faitour ‘imposter’, ‘cheat’, a specialized sense of Old French faitor ‘doer’, ‘maker’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Frome.German : from a short form of a personal name composed with Middle High German vrom, vrum ‘valiant’, ‘steadfast’ (see Frommelt).
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English
English : patronymic from Pettey.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Matters, itself a variant of Matter.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Letters
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Greek
(ΛεφτÎÏις) Short form of Greek Eleftherios, LEFTERIS means "the liberator."
Girl/Female
Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Litters; Alphabets; Short Letter
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English, French, German, Turkish
Letters Patent; Authorization Letter
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Setter.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called from the rivers on which they stand, or simply a name for someone living beside a river of this name, which is probably cognate with Welsh ffraw ‘fair’, ‘fine’, ‘brisk’. Compare Frampton.
Girl/Female
Indian
Letters
Male
Finnish
Finnish form of Greek Petros, PETTERI means "rock, stone."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Leader.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Lüders (see Lueders).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Leather.
Male
Swedish
Norwegian and Swedish form of Greek Petros, PETTER means "rock, stone."Â
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v. t.
To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
v. i.
To become better; to improve.
n.
A letter; an epistle.
a.
Inscribed or stamped with letters.
n.
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
prep.
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
a.
Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.
prep.
From.
imp. & p. p.
of Letter
a.
Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
a.
Free from fetters.
n.
See Letters clause / close, under Letter.
a.
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
n.
Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
p. pr. & vb. n.
To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
a.
Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
a.
Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.
v. t.
To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
n.
Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters.
a.
More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.