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Example sentences for "movable types"

  • A page of movable types can be used for a mould, from which can be made a stereotype plate of immovable letters.

  • He was not the first to make printed books; it is not certain that he made the first printing press; it is not probable that he was the first to think of movable types.

  • The potters clearly understood the [p036] value of movable types.

  • Hamilton A primer of information about the invention of the alphabet and the history of bookmaking up to the invention of movable types.

  • Most of the early editions are printed from movable types with a block printed illustration at the head of each page.

  • To print sundry accessories alongside Chinese texts, in order to make them easily legible for Japanese students, was another difficulty which was found almost insuperable in the adoption of movable types.

  • It proves also that Japan was not yet in any urgent need of seeing books suddenly multiplied by the busy use of movable types.

  • Junius, as we see, attributes to Laurent Coster the first impression of the Speculum, no longer the purely xylographic impression of the Donatus from an engraved block, but that of the more advanced manner in movable types.

  • We have now come to 1453, the year preceding the first dated monument of printing in movable types: the letters of indulgence.

  • It was doubtless this difficulty of correction that gave the idea of movable types.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    away down; dead silence; driven away; each instant; entire sanctification; ever had; find employment; foraging expedition; hotel butter; last will; million sterling; movable types; never could; noble fellow; organ pipe; postage prepaid; scientific theory; student life; these works; vertical lines; white dress; will well