At her baptismal ceremony, contemporaries wrote that Charles, despite his best efforts, appeared upset at the child's gender.

As contemporaries wrote, "a half of the city's population joined his funeral procession".

She sings what her contemporaries write; she doesn't just lay vocal laurels on the graves of the worthy dead.

My literary ancestors and contemporaries have written many beautiful lines on the kinds of moods that were appearing in each part of the story.

Harington's contemporaries wrote of him in the highest terms.

While other contemporaries wrote poems that protested against national life under Salazar, O'Neill's attack ran deeper.

(A few scholars have argued that contemporaries like Francis Bacon wrote plays attributed to Shakespeare, but this notion is generally discredited.)

Some contemporaries had written that it was considered unlucky to speak of Rahon by its proper name, in the morning, when fasting.

Some contemporary Biblical scholars have challenged this view: few today believe that contemporaries of Jesus actually wrote the New Testament gospels.

The smallest of connections is interesting, once you get over the shock that your approximate contemporaries are writing their memoirs.