A "polymathic figure", he wrote on grammar, science, logic, medicine and history.

The main figures of the academy wrote comedy and farce:

There was no doubt that the figure who'd given it to me had written this message.

"Here," she said, presenting her bill, the figures written in Mandarin on the bright-red paper.

Yet the figure at the desk still wrote.

The ghostly figure appears to Constance and writes to "Beware".

Surely, no respected figure would write a whole book on the world economy based on such a transparent fallacy.

Many prominent academic experts, political figures, journalists and activists have written for the Journal.

The phrase caught the mood of the time,and many public figures in Britain spoke and wrote in support.

"Either affirm your ability to take decisive measures, or resign," the 22 journalists, economists, politicians and cultural figures wrote in their open letter.