"Chirography" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Silvio del Sordo and his address as 272 Bowery. He played cards with them, read the papers aloud and made himself generally agreeable. During this period he frequently saw the defendant write and familiarized himself with his chirography. ...
— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train
... Unhappily, Count Musin-Pushkin's valuable library was burned during the conflagration of Moscow, in 1812. But the Slovo had been twice published previous to that date, and had been examined by many learned paleographists, who decided that the chirography belonged to the end of the fourteenth century or the beginning of ...
— A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections • Isabel Florence Hapgood
... blue editorial pencil that he liked to use. He wrote an atrocious hand. His only competitor in this way was his close friend Barrie. The general verdict among the people who have read the writing of both men is that Frohman took the palm for illegible chirography. ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
... press, he often uses many abbreviations, his capitalization is frequently incorrect, his spelling occasionally not in accordance either with Worcester or Webster, his punctuation inaccurate, his historical and biographical statements careless, and his chirography frequently very bad. In such cases the proof-reader is sorely tried; and unless he is a man of much patience, well versed in the art of deciphering incorrigible manuscripts, and supplying all their ...
— The Importance of the Proof-reader - A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson • John Wilson
... done after the public reception, and "three hours' handshaking is not calculated to improve a man's chirography." ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
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