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Example sentences for "cannot write"

  • I cannot write now to dearest Aunty or Pena.

  • We are sadly in want of men; yet we cannot write to ask persons to come out for this work who may be indisposed, when they arrive in New Zealand, to carry out the particular system on which the Bishop proceeds.

  • Whoever he was, he cannot write; he is humane, but a duffer; I could weep when I think of him; for surely to be virtuous and incompetent is a hard lot.

  • I cannot write, in any sense of the word; but I am as happy as can be, and wish to notify the fact, before it passes.

  • I cannot write while I am travelling; c'est un defaut; but so it is.

  • I cannot write to any length under a disguised feeling.

  • I have this morning such a lethargy that I cannot write.

  • But I cannot write in the modern style, if I try ever so hard.

  • I cannot write without a genial impulse, and I have none.

  • But I have it under his own hand, that I am non-capacitated (I cannot write it in-) for business.

  • I cannot write straighter in bed, so you must be content.

  • I cannot write an answer now, you rogues.

  • I cannot write about it, and as to talking of it, I could no more do that than a dumb man.

  • I cannot write what I wish; I had so many things to say, I seem to have said none.

  • My very dearest papa,--I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet.

  • I must now conclude, for I cannot write in bed, and I am too sleepy to sit up any longer.

  • MY DEAR MAMMA,-- I cannot write much, for my fingers ache from writing out such a quantity of recitative.

  • Of my winter's sickness I cannot write; it contained a long life of enjoyment, and what I hoped would prove profitable thought and reflection.

  • But I am so excessively weary that I cannot write more,--scarcely to assure you of the warm affection of your "M.

  • But I cannot write or think; I seem to feel that 'bonnie little bairnie' in my arms still, and my nerves are something shaken.

  • And I cannot write but a few things, which I know must surely come to pass; neither can I write but a few of the words of my brother Jacob.

  • This time I cannot write to my wife; do me the favour to let her know I received her letter, am well, and hope to be with her on Wednesday next, at night.

  • This time I cannot write to my wife, because he who is to carry my letter to Oundle, will not stay till I can write another.

  • All which is truth, as he shall answer to God; and depones he cannot write.

  • I cannot write a single word more; for I have stolen the time to write this from the labors of the field.

  • Give my love to Una, to whom I cannot write now, without doubling the postage.

  • Although I cannot write you so often as I wish, you are never out of my thoughts.

  • It is a great affliction to me that I cannot write to you oftener than I do.

  • But the business before me is so arduous, and takes up my time so entirely, that I cannot write oftener.

  • I cannot write more at present than to assure you of the health of your own family.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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