And though he said in '32 that he could write, he is not going to say in '54 that he is the best of all military writers.
It was said of his father that he could speak well, and it may be said of him that he could write well--the only thing he could do which was worth doing, always supposing that there is any merit in being able to write.
I could write pages to you upon this Subject, for I am full of it--but I will send you the book.
My heart is so expanded, I could write to the last scrap of my paper; but I won't.
In the Autobiography he tells us that after he had published the poem he felt he could write no longer for the Daily News.
Belloc too believed he could write a successful play and he and Anstey (author of Vice Versa) suggested the dramatising of a Belloc story.
These in some dark way I thought before I could write, and felt before I could think; that we may proceed more easily afterwards, I will roughly recapitulate them now.
Pusey himself he could write a kindly and courteous letter; but on the platform, or in correspondence with friends, he could denounce 'Puseyites' in the roundest terms.
To them he could write sympathetically of Church questions at home, in which he maintained his interest.
I could write a book on the Doctors I have known and the blunders they have made about me.
Would they kindly give me his name and address so that I could write personally.
I could write out an exhaustive analysis of the clever young man, and being one myself can speak from "inspired sources" as the newspapers say.
The spirit in which he could writethat he was "much revived by having an opportunity of abusing Whistler to a knot of his special admirers" is a spirit apt to be misconstrued.
Before he was nine he could write such a passage as this about a Hallowe'en observance: "I pulled a middling-sized cabbage-runt with a pretty sum of gold about it.
I could write on for hours, but I have said enough.
It was exactly the story to appeal to Mark Twain, and the kind of thing he could write.
Daddy went to school to his father, and has told me so much about him, that without seeing him, I could write a book on the subject.
Why, I've tramped so many decks to the tune of that girl's charms that I could write a book about her.
White was an accomplished writer, and poetical, and there is no doubt he could write a winning letter.
She believed from what Mr. Tullidge had done in "Eleanor de Vere" that he could write a great play of Elizabeth.
Ask him if he ever has felt that he could write or paint no more, and then ask him how he liked the feeling.
It was not much of a story, and, as I read it, I kept thinking that I could write as good a one.
This view was intimately connected with his character, and before he could write a poem whose kinetic was comparable to its potential power he had to change completely his attitude towards life.
Is it possible that a man who felt such things sincerely could write of his feelings in such mellifluous prose?
He understood life, you bet, and he could write it down with all its little twists.
I was just thinking, when I met you, that I could write a book about my adventures.
It appears that Shakespeare's daughter, Judith, could write no more than her grandfather.
If he could write, but was a rough bookless man, his condition would be scarcely the more gracious, even if he were able to copy in his scrawl the fine Roman hand of the concealed poet.
A man was a fool to go to sea when he could write, he concluded, though the money in itself meant nothing to him.
When I think of the play of force and matter, and all the tremendous struggle of it, I feel as if I could write an epic on the grass.
This would be the last paragraph in "Overdue"; but so thoroughly was the whole book already composed in his brain that he could write, weeks before he had arrived at the end, the end itself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could write" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
