| So, much as I relish the phrase, I don't think I really qualify as a particularly diligent diarist. |
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| A couple of weeks ago your diarist was interviewed by pupils at a Lincolnshire school undertaking a history project. |
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| This rather dashed me, though he doesn't know that I am a diarist, and is probably unaware that I am somewhat simple-minded. |
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| Witty, flamboyant and scandalous, he was also a diarist in the tradition of Samuel Pepys. |
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| That said, he is a terrific diarist, unselfconscious and candid to an alarming degree. |
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| Meanwhile a so-called rival diarist has been taking her name in vain, referring sneeringly to her brief career as an author of bodice rippers. |
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| After a fortnight's break, the latter week spent amid the fleshpots of exotic South Wales, your diarist returns suitably broadened. |
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| As an African American diarist in antebellum and post-bellum America, she was a privileged individual by birth and endowment. |
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| Samuel Pepys, the diarist, recorded having curds and cream or whey as a snack on several occasions. |
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| Your on-message diarist, on the other hand, has no doubt secured himself a place at the great junket, and should order the new tuxedo now. |
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| The diarist John Evelyn describes Bacon at ease in his garden accompanied by a servant with inkhorn and quill to record his thoughts. |
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| Macmillan was a bookish man, an avid reader and a prolific diarist and writer. |
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| Leafing through the Kingdom's local paper, your diarist was caught by the horrific story of how a man was savagely gored by a circus elephant in Tramore, Co Waterford. |
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| Your diarist settles down for a long session on the laptop. Berlin is like a second skin. |
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| The diarist is analyzed first by Enid the agoraphobe, then by Jack the depressive doorman. |
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| To avoid replicating Pepys' digestive troubles, this brunch sandwich contains some greenery, which would probably appal the diarist. |
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| Catharine Parr Traill was an habitual diarist when conditions and good health allowed her sufficient leisure to make regular entries. |
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| Malala is the same age as another writer, a diarist, who inspired many around the world. |
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| But for someone so well-known as a diarist, we hear remarkably little from Alice herself. |
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| They were helped by the fact that Roy Weatherby was a dedicated diarist, note taker, letter writer and photography buff. |
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| I guess, like this Daily kos diarist, that our children are 41 percent lazier than they were a decade ago. |
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| Tony Benn has many of the attributes of a great diarist akin to Horace Walpole or Charles Greville and, like these two, he comes from the outer fringes of the titled classes. |
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| A machine spits out a ticket and your diarist, who is not as young as he was, sprints for it. Big mistake. |
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| The English diarist James Boswell wrote in 1769, only a year after the Genoese ceded the island to France, of the excellence and diversity of Corsican wines. |
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| Famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. |
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| The diary that British civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys kept from 1659 to 1669 is a detailed account of events during the first decade of the Restoration. |
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| As a diarist, Catharine generally avoided the personal and concentrated on close observation of her new home, its landscape, climate, and distinctive flora and fauna. |
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| But Marin Sanudo, the diarist and statesman, who received no less than five dedications during 1501 and 1502, now bulks larger than anyone, and he is joined by an increasing number of similar men. |
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| In 1933, after his experience at Pozuzo and a period of two years at Ambo, Fr, Silvester Engel, the provincial, sent him to the provincial house at Lima as librarian, chaplain and provincial diarist. |
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| In 1962, the diarist, Friedrich Kellner, returned to spend his last years in Mainz. |
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| On the ships were navigators, explorers, sailors, doctors, workers, and soldiers along with the translator and diarist Gong Zhen. |
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| The historian Kume Kunitake as private secretary to Iwakura Tomomi, was the official diarist of the journey. |
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| Wartime diarist and local housewife Nella Last's memoirs were adapted for television, with parts of the town used in filming. |
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| Another of the children was Florence Vere O'Brien, a diarist, philanthropist, and craftswoman who lived in Ireland. |
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| Once the home of the diarist Anne Lister, Shibden Hall is just outside Halifax in the neighbouring Shibden Valley. |
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| Nella Last from Barrow-in-Furness is the only diarist whose real name is used because an edition of her diary was published several years ago. |
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| He led an interesting and colorful life, being an oysterman, judge, diarist, reservation schoolteacher, and ethnographer. |
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| His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. |
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| A small incident noted by another unnamed diarist writes of an African coming to him as he gutted fish to make an impromptu trade of the fish for a coconut. |
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| He had found consolation for his unhappy marriage in his warm friendship with the diarist Harriet Arbuthnot, wife of his colleague Charles Arbuthnot. |
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| He was however noted by Cambridge diarist Abraham de la Pryme as having rebuked students who were frightening local residents by claiming that a house was haunted. |
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| Diarist and biographer James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death, which was from some form of abdominal cancer. |
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