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Example sentences for "chirography"

Lexicographically close words:
chippings; chips; chirch; chirche; chirches; chiromancy; chiropodist; chirp; chirped; chirping
  1. His chirography is easy, free, graceful, clear, and clean.

  2. His chirography was often had in requisition; and papers, evidently from his pen, are on file in various cases, occurring in court at the time, in which his friends were interested.

  3. Number Seven's manuscript, which showed marks of my corrections here and there, furnished good examples of the chirography of persons with ill-mated cerebral hemispheres.

  4. I might guess the writers sometimes by the handwriting, but there is more trouble taken to disguise the chirography than I choose to take to identify it as that of any particular member of our company.

  5. As a first proposition to such a man, however, the expert in chirography may put him to the proof that out of a dozen signatures of his own name no two will be alike in general form.

  6. The penmanship of Bryant was aggressive, well formed and decidedly pleasing to the eye; while the chirography of Scott, Hunt, Moore, and Gray was smooth and easy to read but did not express distinct individuality.

  7. Would we could give specimens of their chirography also!

  8. Several experts were called in, and declared that the handwriting of the clerk and the chirography of the “forger” were one and the same.

  9. Returning with these articles, Welty wrote the will in such hiroglyphic chirography that a Greely himself could not make it out.

  10. Now I do flatter myself upon so writing, that compositors can have no excuse for blunders, though I am well aware that to be esteemed a Genious, one's chirography should very nearly approach unintelligibility.

  11. There is an attempt at disguise, but a clumsy one, the letters still retaining the characteristics of the more deliberate chirography of the long communications.

  12. In wrapping up the slate the medium presses the writing on the paper against the surface of the slate and the chirography adheres thereto, very much as the greasy drawing on a lithographer's stone prints on paper.

  13. It does not require a professional expert in chirography to detect this fact.

  14. They contain," he added, "some specimens of the witness's chirography of about the same date as the will.

  15. The fact is, my chirography varies so much from time to time that I often find it difficult for me to verify my own signatures.

  16. I shall also cable for Graham, the expert on chirography and on all kinds of forgeries, and we will have his decision upon that will.

  17. The present writer possesses specimens of Mr. Hawthorne's chirography at various ages, from boyhood until a day or two before his death.

  18. His chirography actually and undeniably exhibited the same general characteristics, only intensified and with less certainty of stroke and pen-pressure.

  19. But apart from the question of chirography one other manifestation constantly reminded Mortmain of his crime.

  20. She seized it again and pored over it with keen eyes; but its neat, cramped chirography revealed nothing.

  21. She looked at the letter--her own familiar chirography started her out of countenance.

  22. Great stress was laid on good writing, probably because our logograms, partaking as they do of the nature of pictures, possess artistic value, and also because chirography was accepted as indicative of one's personal character.

  23. To a philosophic and pious mind, the races themselves are marks of Divine chirography clearly traced in black and white as on their skin; and if this simile holds good, the yellow race forms a precious page inscribed in hieroglyphics of gold!

  24. We must have the right to turn down the leaf, and underscore the favorite passage, and write an observation in the margin in such poor chirography that no one else can read it and we ourselves are sometimes confounded.

  25. An unreasonable schoolmaster has often, by false instruction, cramped or ruined the pupil's chirography for ever.

  26. The boldest specimen of chirography I ever received was from a man whose wife keeps him in perpetual tremor, he surrendering every time she looks toward the broomstick.

  27. The writing is apparently a woman's, but the chirography is smaller than the Girl's.

  28. Can you imitate the chirography of others?

  29. The chirography was precisely that of the letter.

  30. No, for the chirography was not mine--it was identical with all the rest of the writing.

  31. And it was not within the scope of such an arid old specimen of the antique clergy as he whose stilted Latin and angular chirography I had just examined to follow such a fashion even had it existed.


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