‘First I will take my pay,’ the letter-writer said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

I think this letter-writer misses some important points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside my Palin mailbag] Reference

Is there anything more to say? inquires the letter-writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pictures from Italy] Reference

He tipped his head toward the letter-writer and grinned again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

The letter-writer had added what looked like chicken scratches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose]

I wonder whether Possy was a great letter-writer and kept poultry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917] Reference

Yet my anguished letter-writer is groping for precisely this word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cry of Our Inner Gandhi] Reference

Labourers, according to one letter-writer, demanded a dollar an hour!.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

I haven't read Hoagland's column, to which the letter-writer responds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Administration Pushed For Private Briefings For Petraeus, Dems Confirm] Reference

The details, fortunately I was a prolific letter-writer when I was a kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War Zones] Reference

The letter-writer tapped his forehead thoughtfully with a brown forefinger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

Then he could pay the letter-writer and write letters to the lama at Benares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

A letter-writer in my local paper today reaches the wrongest possible conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: Reaching The Wrongest Conclusion About Unions!] Reference

The letter-writer, however, would never have risen to such a word as ‘eschew’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

‘Wonder on wonder!’ murmured the letter-writer, dipping a reed in the inkstand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

I found him quite lately, the letter-writer in a good village not far from Memphis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Across the street, the letter-writer came out of his store-front and pointed at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Then he ran to the bazar, and found the young letter-writer to whom he owed a stamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

At a glance from me, the letter-writer retreated and I was left alone with my packet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

‘But — but what manner of white man’s son art thou to need a bazar letter-writer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

It is of Pliny the naturalist, not of Pliny the letter-writer, that we are now speaking.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference

I must have been less than five when I penned this: I was always a letter-writer, it seems.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference

In a little while thou goest to Nucklao, and — here is something to pay the letter-writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

Barney was a very bad letter-writer, and the children had not heard from him since Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rilloby Fair Mystery]

As she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a public letter-writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

This was before he had learned to write fair English, and so was obliged to find a bazar letter-writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

Not that I know, but of course he found a letter-writer who can write English verree well, and so he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

"She is indeed grievously afflicted," observed the letter-writer, shaking his gray head and uttering a sigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

Yet unauthorized publications of other letters will follow, for Mendelssohn was a prolific letter-writer; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

Do admit that I have become an excellent letter-writer — at least to you, and that your ingratitude is imbecile. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

"The big record companies are, as usual, fighting anything that is new and innovative," charged a third letter-writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Music Is It, Anyway?] Reference

A good letter-writer so takes the colour of the reader at the other end, that from reading the one we can imagine the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

Naomi, and fell into conversation with a professional letter-writer who sat, bearded and grave, with ink-horn fastened at his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

He wrote many fan letters in the late 1930s, and one Brass Tacker described the "argumentative Asimov" as his favorite letter-writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The letter was written in the shaky round hand of the bazaar letter-writer, which resembled a copybook exercise written by a drunkard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

If this mysterious letter-writer managed to open up a dialogue with her, the story would certainly be worth more than a cameraman's wage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Famous]