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How To Use epistolary In A Sentence

• He identifies Romans as "a deliberative discourse which uses an epistolary framework and in some ways comports with a protreptic letter."
• And while we have become accustomed to the epistolary poem as a quasi-public mode in the seventeenth century, many of Fane's epistles are no more than personal notes.
• Then I go carefully over the columns of the weekly, clip out all the available personals and news items, about weddings, and engagements, and teas, etc., hash them up in epistolary style, forge the Windsor correspondent's nom de plume – and there's your society letter! The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
• Samuel Richardson's novels are all epistolary in form.
• Letters for the Memorable Year (1987) [34] details in epistolary form many actual experiences of the author (here called K). Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer
• After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall. Ulysses
• Of all branches of prose composition, the epistolary was the most carefully cultivated. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
• Shklovsky's second literary book - Zoo, or Letters Not about Love - takes the form of an epistolary novel.
• It was an appropriate penname for the wife of a man who in common with his fellow American founding fathers, identified himself strongly with Roman republican statesmen and martyrs such as Cicero, and Abigail Adams was not alone in having adopted this epistolary practice. Caesars’ Wives
• I deem it for the mind to apricate in the shelter of epistolary confidence, were it not that a considerable, I might even say a large, number of individuals in this parish expect from their pastor some publick expression of sentiment at this crisis. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell