Theodosius, it may be remembered, was himself an admirable penman and illuminator, so much so as to have acquired the cognomen of Kalligráphos.
Indeed, from the signatures in the volumes it is seen that the work of the penman was Italian; vol.
The divine penman has set before us, with unflinching fidelity, all the imperfections of those whose history He records.
The house of Elkanah is taken up by the sacred penman as a striking illustration of Israel after the flesh, and Israel after the Spirit.
Nat, you are the best penmanin the mill," said Dr.
What prophet, or apostle, or penman of Scripture, hath said any thing concerning the sacrifice of the mass, for the living and the dead?
What prophet, or apostle, or penman of the Scripture, hath said any thing concerning praying souls out of purgatory, or of having mass read for them?
But neither of them spoke, and the penmansaid sharply-- "Hallo!
Yes, Ned, lovely and glorious," said the penman sadly.
He is an excellent penman and accountant, and speaks French.
Edward Cocker, penman and engraver, famous in his time for the number and variety of his productions.
A Diwan or Collection Odes by Shahi,' transcribed by the famouspenman Mir Ali, in Bokar
Mir Ali, who transcribed this book, was the most excellent penman of his time.
Every public school teacher knows that one child will quickly learn that and soon become a competentpenman while another can by no possibility exhibit skill in that particular art.
One who has been a skillful penman brings all his skill to the new incarnation but of course the new body must be trained to hold the pen and form the letters.
And there is also a second objection that may be urged against the hypothesis, with even still greater prima facie plausibleness, that Father Edward Oldcorne, Priest and Jesuit, was the meritorious Penman of the dictated Letter.
Now, to my mind, it is a proposition so plain as not to require arguing, that there must have been at least two persons engaged in the two-fold transaction of dictating the Letter and of being the penman of the same.
What objection, then, can be brought against the hypothesis that Father Edward Oldcorne, Priest and Jesuit, and native of the City of York, was the Penman of this most momentous perhaps of all Letters ever writ by the hand of man?
For it is obvious that neither Wright nor Oldcorne (ex hypothesi) would, for different but most potent reasons, wish the penman of the Letter to be known to the then public, either Catholic or Protestant.
A penman or a novice in illuminating can, by taking a little pains, beautify his MSS.
Heads are easily built up at the ends of thick strokes, but some practice is required to enable a penman to make them on the thin strokes properly and skilfully.
And it is well that the penman should stick to his pen as much as is possible.
A parchment glued to the surface of a millboard is more convenient for framing, but has a less natural surface, and is not so easily managed by the penman as the plain, flexible parchment.
The earlier Versals had very simple and beautiful pen shapes, and are the best models for the modern penman to follow.
The penman will find the smooth side preferable for writing on (though, of course, both sides must be used in a book: see p.
The penman may with advantage devote some study to a fine monumental type of Roman Capital (such as that of the Trajan Column Inscription: Plates I.
The acquired skill of the penman leads very naturally to a pen flourishing and decoration of his work, and this again to many different types of filigree decoration more or less resembling floral growths (see figs.
Having acquired a formal hand the penman may modify and alter it, taking care that the changes are compatible, and that they do not impair its legibility or beauty.
This penmanwill have his inevitable natural slant to his letters.
Brockway, the veteran dean of counterfeiters; Emanuel Ninger, the most expert penman the service ever knew, and Taylor and Bredell, who hold the record as the cleverest counterfeiters in history next to Brockway.
A simulation of such a signature by an expert penman will usually leave enough traces of his ability in handling the pen to pierce his disguise.
These radiating lines, too, may be used in the few cases where the forger is an expert penman depending upon an offhand duplication of a signature.
The forger himself is known as the "scratcher," or the expert penman of the party.
The simulated tremor of a skilful penman is rarely successful in deceiving a trained eye.
These are stolen and sent to thepenman or "scratcher.
Sam Davis, an old time Californian, and now in Nevada, writes the freest of any penman I know.
I just say this to show how difficult it is for a fine penman to get ahead as a journalist.
As soon as it was dark enough, Captain Penman let his vessel drift landward with the tide, then running strong into the wide swallow of the Solway.
There might be a bit of a skirmish as the men were coming over, but he could warrant that they would be safe on board along with Captain Penman before ever a soldier set his foot on the island.
Captain Penman was a singularly unsociable shipmate at the best of times for a man of Eben's profession, and might even go the length of throwing him overboard some dark night, merely, as it were, in order to lighten ship.
So they put about and in a few minutes they were having their hands wrung off by Captain Penman on his own quarter-deck.
He walked off the step of his verandah into the arms of Captain Penman and half-a-dozen of the crew of the Good Intent.
Captain Penman was a man of few words, and these few he did not waste.
Captain Penman looked at the girl beside him, and was sorry for her disappointment.
Andro the Penman and his brother John, with the taciturnity natural to early risers, were silently hoisting the flag which denoted the presence of the noble young chatelaine of the great fortress.
He appointed Andro the Penman and his brother John officers of the garrison during his absence.
As their feet were approaching the sixth step, a sudden word came from the Penman like a bolt from his bow.
Then still without speech to any he brushed hastily up the stairs towards the upper floor, which he had set Andro the Penman and his brother to guard.
He is very scornful of the "penman," and it is on the general ground of his being a penman that he deprecates the existence of his late adversary, Mr. Ruskin.
Let work be received in silence," says Mr. Whistler, "as it was in the days to which the penman still points as an era when art was at its apogee.
Mr. Penman was so highly Indignant at the manner in which he had been handled during the initiation that he immediately wrote an expose of the secret work, with numerous illustrations, and had it published in Harper's Weekly.
John Penman to consent to become one of its members.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amanuensis; clerk; copyist; pen; scribbler; scribe; scrivener; transcriber; writer
