If the label has had a light coat of thin white lead, and the legend has been made with a soft lead pencil, the writing should remain legible four or five years.
Fresh zinc takes a lead pencil readily, and the writing often becomes more legible as it becomes older, and it will usually remain three or four years.
Certainly the use of Images or Representations is great: If we could make our words as legible to Children as Pictures are, their information therefrom would be quickned and surer.
Something, I trow, morelegible than maiden's breast.
Did she know that instinctively Ethel had guessed her secret, that her generous heart throbbed with sympathy for a pain which, hidden as it was, was plainly legible to her clear-sightedness?
He had always been grave and staid beyond his years, but now faintly-drawn lines were plainly legible in the smooth forehead, and a steady concentrated light in the brown eyes bore witness to abiding and careful thought.
The dispatches from the Culpers were generally written in invisible ink, which was made legible by wetting the paper with another liquid.
To be able to speak one of the Austrian national languages, and to write a good current and legible hand.
To write English correctly from dictation, and in a legible hand.
In the English language, the candidate will be required to write correctly and in a good legible hand from dictation, and to compose grammatically.
In their own language, good legible handwriting, a correct style, free from orthographical or grammatical mistakes, facility of expression in writing and speaking; some evidence of a knowledge of German literature.
Now among the visible objects which hint to us fragments of this infinite secret for which our souls are waiting, the faces of women are those that carry the most legible hieroglyphics of the great mystery.
The following words were yet legible on the canvas: "Thou hast made a covenant O Lord with mee and my Children forever.
Many men’s unfrequent and lazy prayers have this written upon them in legible characters, I care not whether God grant or not.
There are some marks and characters of unregenerated men so legible and express, that we may even read from men’s conversation, that they are not the children of God.
It is no ways imaginable, how the wicked and ungodly in the land would so insult and rejoice in this day, if they saw not some legible characters upon it, which were agreeable to their own principles and ends.
The letter is fairly legiblebut the handwriting is somewhat doggish.
To find such significance in a bourgeois villa garden, and to interpret it with such delicate yet legible certainty, was a kind of symbolism that was sinister, even diabolical.
Not a trace of guilty consciousness of what had passed during the night was legiblein her face.
One trick which my father had acquired from his habits of solitude and silence was this of assuming that the context of his thoughts was legible to others, forgetting that they had not been spoken.
We shall quote this part in full: "The first thing which I copied in my clumsy, but legible handwriting was Polikushka.
The first thing which I copied out in my clumsy, but legible writing was Polikushka, and for years afterwards that work delighted me.
But suppose you fill in your furrow with something black, then it will be legible enough at once; and if the black fall out or wash out, still your furrow is there, and may be filled again by anybody.
Within these slates, after being held for a long while by both hands of the Medium under the table, two or three barely legible words appeared.
By the melting of the glue and warping of the leaves, this book is no longer legible unless some such method be used as that which is employed in unfolding the parched and mouldering manuscripts found in the ruins of Herculaneum.
During the last year or two an immense deal of business has been done by three or four publishing houses, in the production of esteemed works at four sous the sheet, of close yet legible type, excellent paper, and spirited illustrations.
Alpheus with Aretho," is but too plainlylegible in our Greek-reading times.
She was fond of a book, she could write an unformed, legible hand, and add up a simple sum.
The name is already notorious through the country," retorted Gilbert, "and you have written it in very legible characters upon the cheek of a little pig-driver.
The letters were addressed to "Mademoiselle Louise Cornelis, Compiegne;" they bore the postmark and the quite legible stamp of the days on which they were posted in the April and May of 1864.
And these Royal Nautical Sportsmen had the distinction still quitelegible in their hearts.
Sorrow had graven legible traces upon the brow of my hapless mentor when I saw her again.
If you could approach the mysterious legend from a slightly different point of view, or look at it from another distance, the clew to the puzzle would be seized, and the words would stand forth clear and legible in your sight.
Of all their horrible dialogue, only these words were legible in the manuscript, "You know me now.
He backed in there when the ladies had alighted, and ran alongside an automobile on which "Paris" and "speed" were written in characters legible to the motorist.
No printed page could be more legible than Cynthia's thought-processes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clear; fair; intelligible; plain; readable
