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Example sentences for "caligraphy"

Lexicographically close words:
californica; californicus; califs; caligine; caligraphic; caliper; calipered; calipers; caliphs; calisaya
  1. The writing is of a good round-hand character, and far superior to the caligraphy of many present-day clerks.

  2. I am afraid that a vast number of our good clerks would have been sore puzzled to perform the first task, and the caligraphy of the letter would in many cases have been curious.

  3. It is nothing like so elaborate as that of Elizabeth, but it is easy to see that the two Princesses received lessons in Italian caligraphy from the same teacher, probably Castiglione.

  4. Each counted out her own portion, then scribbled away as fast as was consistent with keeping the size of her caligraphy within due bounds.

  5. Angelo Vergecio, whose beautiful caligraphy excited the admiration of the learned.

  6. But the reader must form some notion of that charm of caligraphy which has so bewitched its professors, when, Soft, bold, and free, your manuscripts still please.

  7. English scribes, arranged chronologically, so as to exhibit the progress and development of the arts of caligraphy and illuminating in England.

  8. It recalls the small and beautiful caligraphy of the old days.

  9. This is what he wrote, in large unsteady characters, entirely changed from the neat beautiful caligraphy of the past.

  10. Handwriting has its physiognomy, and everybody who has been accustomed to a large correspondence knows how instinctively and unfailingly he recognises a caligraphy which has been presented to him only twice or thrice.

  11. It is pretty much with the various forms of caligraphy as it is with the human face or with the human voice.

  12. We all know that the term mirror writing is in use to specify that mode of caligraphy which looks exactly like ordinary writing when it is reflected in a mirror or if the paper is held to the light and seen from the reverse side.

  13. The state of affairs is unaltered so long as he is handling a pen, though, curiously enough, his caligraphy itself is flawless.

  14. Strangely enough, to his actual caligraphy no exception can be taken.

  15. The caligraphy was mine beyond a doubt, though here and there a trifle shaky.

  16. The Bishop's beautiful caligraphy was famous--a fair handwriting is nowadays too rare.

  17. Another characteristic is that of employing an orthography and caligraphy peculiar to themselves, with words in large type or underlined.

  18. Many have a caligraphy quite peculiar to themselves, close, continuous, with lengthened letters, and always extremely legible.

  19. The same excellence of caligraphy which Palmerston himself practised he rightly required from his subordinates.

  20. In this case, if in no other, the oracles of Caligraphy are set at naught.

  21. Will the experts in caligraphy tell me if, in this case, similarity of writing bodied forth similarity of gifts or qualities?

  22. This request, to the caligraphy of which Buvat had devoted no little care, and whose capital letters represented different plants, trees, or animals, occupied the worthy writer from breakfast till dinner.

  23. Caligraphy was with him an art which almost became drawing.

  24. The person whose caligraphy was considered to show that the writer was the possessor of the finest character was to receive one hundred pounds.

  25. It was her caligraphy which had been adjudicated on, her character which had been deduced therefrom.

  26. The initial letters and the decorative caligraphy show skilful technique and were evidently designed at the period of which Dante speaks as "L'onor di quell'arte ch'alluminare รจ chiamata in Parisi.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caligraphy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.