An electrictypewriter was connected to and operated by each machine, and through each typewriter ran an endless roll of paper, which emerged to be cut off into eleven-inch lengths by automatic knives.
The three men crowded around Number Seven, and watched the emergence of paper from the typewriter as the keys tapped the words into lines, and the carriage shifted.
The rattling typewriter in the next room was abruptly stilled.
At a typewriter lolled the clerk, his hand fumbling among some papers.
But whereas the typewriter merely imprints a single character on paper, the linotype and monotype cast, deliver, and set up type from which an indefinite number of impressions can be taken.
Roughly described, they are to the compositor what a typewriter is to a clerk--forming words in obedience to the depression of keys on a keyboard.
Fuselli slipped in behind the typewriter and stood with his cap in his hand beside the sergeant-major's chair.
The sergeant-major was a small man with a fresh boyish face and a drawling voice who lolled behind a large typewriter reading a magazine that lay on his lap.
At a desk in one corner a typewriter clicked spasmodically.
I'll make that out for you on the typewriter tomorrow and you meet me here at eight tomorrow night and I'll give it to you.
Andrews walked boldly to the furthest desk, where a little red card leaning against the typewriter said "Regimental Sergeant-Major.
In the end of the room a typewriter clicked slowly and jerkily.
The man at the typewriter turned slowly round, showing a large red face and blue eyes.
The other man came back and sank down into his chair in front of the typewriter again.
Andrews followed the recruiting sergeant to a desk in the far corner of the room, from which he could hear more faintly the click, click of the typewriter and the man's voice mumbling angrily.
A door opening into a small room showed a typewriter and a desk piled with work.
You know that she has been a typewriter and stenographer for a long time, and they say she is an excellent one.
The sinistertypewriter did not find its way to Howells for nearly a year.
He wrote: "The typewriter came Wednesday night, and is already beginning to have its effect on me.
All you need on that trail is a typewriter machine.
No one but Tom had arrived at the office and for just a few moments, standing there near Miss Ellison's typewriter and with the prosy letter files about, he was again in France.
The typewriter machine rattled drowsily and continuously on, telling troops here and there that they could have camp accommodations on this or that date.
The things she sat at her typewriter and wrote were of the wonders of that great country: the great timber lands, the valleys and hills, towering mountain peaks and rushing rivers.
Thousands rode in Pullman cars along the banks of the Columbia--saw, and felt not; she sat before her typewriter in a close, noisy room and heard the cooling rush of waters and got the freeing message of the pines.
Then, with the continual watching of her, the continual sight of her hands dancing laboriously on those keys, the noise of the typewriter at last reached the ears of his imagination.
When he was through he straightened up and stretched his arms for he had been hunched over the typewriter for more than an hour and a half.
The federal agent had gone out several hours before, but his portable typewriter was on a low table and Bob sat down and started to work on his report which was to be air mailed to Washington.
Miss Allen, thetypewriter fairy, was a good deal of a frost.
About the second week all hands took a vote that Mildred wa'n't much of a success as a typewriter artist and that she ought to be fired.
But she floats into the Corrugated Trust offices more or less reg'lar every day, just the same, and does her little stunt on the typewriter at so much per.
I've rescued locked-in typewriter girls from fire escapes, and lied the boss out of a family row; but I never tried my hand at kidnappin' enough meat for a dinner party.
I slips through into the main office, gets one of the typewriter girls to address an envelope to Mrs. Piddie, jams a sawbuck into it, and comes out smilin'.
Mostly they grins, except now and then a new lady typewriter who squirms and turns pale.
That is, of course, the date I picked up the typewriter, and it is my best judgment that it was therefore the preceding Monday that I took the typewriter in.
I will support it by saying that he used my typewriter before he went to the driver training location.
And what was the occasion again to--why you had the typewriter repaired as of that time?
Mrs. Paine, you recall that last week in testifying before the Commission, you referred to an incident in which you drove into Dallas with Lee Oswald accompanying you, for the purpose of having a key on your typewriter repaired?
I was using the typewriter in preparation for teaching Russian to one student.
The typewriter I got into commercial shape is now known as the Remington.
This typewriterproved a difficult thing," says Edison, "to make commercial.
This was done in a special machine of Edison's invention, called a perforator, consisting of a series of punches operated by a bank of keys--typewriter fashion.
She found Stillman quite alone, his hands blue-black with the smudge from a refractory typewriterribbon which he was vainly endeavoring to adjust.
It was a far cry from pounding a typewriter in a city office to jogging through the wilderness, lost beyond peradventure, her only company a stranger of unsavory reputation.
I'll bet a nickel there was many a time when you were clacking a typewriterfor a living that you'd have given anything to get out in the green fields for a while.
To teach a class in school, or to be some business shark's slave of the typewriter at ten dollars a week?
She went at her typewriter pell-mell, and soon had Mr. Clegg's letters done.
When at last she sat down to her typewriter and began to click out the wonderful notes that had made so much trouble, and put them in shape for practical use, her head was in a whirl and her heart was beating with a childish ecstasy.
All that morning her typewriter keys clicked with mad rapidity, yet her work was strangely correct and perfect.
Then she turned to her typewriterand began to copy off the shorthand, her fingers flying over the keys with more than their usual swiftness.
Well, now, will you just step into my private office, Miss Hollister, and take your seat by the typewriter as if you were my stenographer?
Yet when Shirley went back to her typewriter the bit of a picture was pinned to the wall back of her desk, and her eyes rested on it many times that day when she lifted them from her work.
Shirley sat down at the typewriter as she had been directed and began to write mechanically.
Yet she could hear the steady click of typewriterkeys in an inner office; he might have remained to dictate a letter.
For his birthday, he received a typewriter from Paul Brennan.
He skipped through the book so close to complete failure that he hurled it across the room, and cried in anger because he had not the strength to throw the typewriter after it.
Then, finished for the day with education, James took to his typewriter while Martha had her nap.
He spotted a car with a portabletypewriter on the back seat.
His fingers failed to coordinate on his typewriter and his manuscript copy turned out rough, with strikeovers, xxx-outs, and gross mistakes.
But Jimmy's typewriter was gone, and his check was gone.
The permissive school encouraged it; if Jimmy Holden preferred to tinker with a typewriter instead of playing noisy games, his teacher saw no wrong in it--for his Third Grade teacher was something of an intellectual herself.
A car with a typewriter was more desirable than one without.
What happened to the typewriter between five o'clock that evening and the following morning was never known; but that epistle was its swan-song.
Aunt May declared that this was a capital notion, and presently Cousin Edith, on one of what she called her little expeditions, discovered in an obscure part of the town a second-hand typewriter that was really very cheap.
Her aunt did not pay any attention to this retort; but a few days later the new typewriter arrived, and it was conferred upon her as if it was a motor-car for her own use.
You will have a lot of time on your hands," Aunt May regretfully sighed after her husband had declined the use of the typewriter for himself.
A hasty breakfast was swallowed, and, before six in the morning, Stuart was on his way back across the island, his faithful typewriter beside him.
He worked until midnight learning the principles of the typewriter and, in a poky sort of way, trying to hammer out the guide sentences given him in the Instruction Book.
Yet from day to day she procrastinated under the shadow of apprehended things; she forebore to dismiss May, to buy that second-hand typewriter she needed, to take any irrevocable step towards the realization of the new way of living.
At the side of the table, with its back to the door, a common chair, with a typewriter before it.
I can easily put a few carbon sheets in the typewriter and send a copy each to the lot.
Next day Fred said to Bob: "I met Gaines's typewriter just now and she said Mr. Gaines had not been to the office since his row with Broker Keeley.
Callie resigned her place as stenographer and typewriter for Banker Barron, and succeeded in getting Gertie's friend employed in her place.
He hates me because I found a place for his typewriter who left him because he wanted to make love to her.
Your cheek drove your typewriter out of your office.
He told me this morning that Mr. Bryant's typewriter was sick, and that I would have to go up to his office to do some work for him.
Yet, when the best handwriting is often illegible and hard to read, a modern invention so necessary as the typewriter should be hailed with delight and used with enthusiasm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "typewriter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
