It was a copybook life for the time being, and when I turned to ask my question as to origins, as every human being has asked himself in turn, I could express myself only in copybook terms.
Their wonder grew greater when, as the bell rang, Elsie was found installed in the little schoolroom, which hitherto had been used chiefly for punishments and doing copybook writing.
Had it been the will of Aphra Orrin at that moment, the opportunity would have been wanting for me to fill this copybook with these notes, to pass the weary time.
Example of early Venetian writing, from a copybook of the 15th century, written with a reed pen.
The homely old copybook text so familiar to our grandmothers, "Beauty is as beauty does," applies well to the appearance of Lincoln, and to the first impressions received by those who saw him.
Among the proud possessors of a copybook so favored was Joe Richardson.
Who has not seen him hunting for a missing exercise in a copybook full of scraps of paper?
Attached to this ball, a paper personage cut out of a copybook cover danced feverishly in space.
The traditional method," he says, "begins with the copybook and proceeds by way of dictation and formal exercises to its goal in the essay.
Mr. Landor, for instance, who writes as if he had the sky for a copybook and dotted his i's in proportion.
I was vastly comforted when I reached this conclusion, and about ten o'clock I armed myself with primer and copybook and hit the trail for heaven.
Then the need arose for something suitable to hold the copybook while she traced her first letters.
When I wrote to 'Crombie for the primer and the copybook I was moved only by a sincere interest in a pretty ignoramus, seeing at the same time an opportunity to relieve the tedium of long hours alone here.
Then I was comforted and took heart, and I believe I finished thatcopybook so well that the teacher gave me the prize.
That day when I blotted my copybook at school, to have had the teacher forgive me ever so kindly would not have made me feel the least bit better so long as the blot was there.
Celie Tennant was just looking over the copybook of Cleaver's boy.
The man who succeeds in this world is doubtless the man who, according to the copybook maxim, gives his undivided attention to the matter in hand.
Now that you have signed the petition for universal peace, said Stephen, I suppose you will burn that little copybook I saw in your room.
Then Jack Lawton cracked his fingers and Father Arnall looked at his copybook and said: --Right.
He will next write a series of words--the good old copybook method with the good old copybook maxims.
If the conversation was to consist of copybook maxims, I could match him as long as he pleased.
If all the copybook maxims which had been drilled into me in my childhood and my early disaster with Audrey had not been sufficient, I ought to have been warned by Sam's advice not to take victory for granted till the fight was over.
Those of Collins look as if they were repeating a copybook maxim at a school examination.
Beside such animals all the Reinecke series of Wilhelm Kaulbach look like "drawings from the copybook of little Moritz.
I am an atheist, I've thrown copybook morals overboard, I am a hard drinker.
I am not converted to your professed belief in the nobility of women, and as for being ashamed--tah, as though I cared for your copybook morality!
Will you illustrate the copybook form on your chart paper, Mr. Cole?
In the copybook or conventional method of making this particular sign the "=S=" shape is usually fairly prominent.
One is that it lacks an upper extension, which is a part shown in most copybook forms.
Where the copybook or conventional form would show first a point at the top of the "r" and then the production of a rounded shoulder, this omits the point, form and develops immediately into a rapidly sloping or curving down slope.
The conventional or copybook form of this "r" would be approximately in this manner: Cusp at the top, broad shoulder on the right side.
In other words, it involves unusual departures from the conventional or copybook method of forming letters.
May I have that admitted as 787, Mr. Chairman, the copybook form of the "r"?
As a matter of fact a peculiarity in handwriting is more often cultivated than controlled, many writers regarding a departure from orthodox copybook form as an evidence of an "educated hand.
Although it may belong to the same class, the number of variations that can be rung on the body is surprisingly large, ranging from the regulation copybook model to the eccentric patterns shown in the examples.
This letter lends itself to tricks and variations, and few letters depart more from the orthodox copybook form in actual practice, as is shown in the examples.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copybook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
