In sheer desperation I took the cover of my typewriting machine and tried to catch him in that.
Indeed she had wondered more than once lately, especially since she had ceased to amuse herself quite so desperately, whether it was likely thattypewriting and book-keeping were to be her destiny after all.
She supposed she ought to work, for if book-keeping and typewriting and so forth were to be her living they might just as well be taken seriously; but she preferred to work where gossip was going on.
She noted the charred portion of paper lying untidily on the hearth, withtypewriting on its upper surface.
Rossiter read this letter an hour or so after it had been delivered, frowned a good deal, made notes in one of his memorandum books; then tore the sheets of typewriting into four and placed them on the fire.
Vivie did remember having glanced very perfunctorily at some effusion in typewriting which had seemed unobjectionable piffle.
A German war bulletin is about as big as an ordinary sheet of typewriting paper, and it is hung low in the newspaper office window where every one takes his turn reading the fine print.
They learn typewriting and how to become telephone centrals.
He had been studying typewriting four months and he could take a dictation like a person with sight.
A musical score is definitely a writing, for it is even more than a literary manuscript, originally in the personal handwriting of the composer himself, without the intervention of a stenographer or a typewriting machine.
Shorthand and typewriting are required in both years, and a few hours a week are reserved in each year for elective courses to be chosen by the pupil among offerings in French, German, Spanish, and history.
The woman who lives in the house has no more need of a professional knowledge of the structural mysteries of drain pipes than a reporter has of a professional knowledge of the structural mysteries of his typewriting machine.
Then there was one typewriting lady who offered to do his work at so much a thousand words, and submitted a sample of her work.
There are three or four typewriting machines on the post to which a cadet may find easy access.
And you will note that these older slips are written on with a typewriting machine, with crude figures drawn in, just as in the case of the slip that figured Prescott's trial.
Explain in your own language why the plan of copying invoices in tissue books with a letter press is inferior to the billing-machine method of typewriting the invoice and sales sheet simultaneously.
This is the size type which is used by railroad and steamship companies for typewriting their way-bills.
Every time an additional sheet was added, the labor of typewriting that sheet separately was eliminated.
Suddenly he stopped and, picking up one of the typewriting machines rented by Sam for the letter writing, raised it above his head and sent it smashing to the floor.
Cornelia, in her most pronounced bel canto style, had volunteered to "lend a helping hand" to the typewriting department and to give her moral support to most of the other departments.
She pounced upon these papers and violently projected them to a point within three inches of her spouse's nose, after which she regaled him with a description of the flaws in the typewriting and the deficiencies in the typist.
Janet was to take the manuscript in sections and, if the scheme worked well, she might do all future typewriting for the playwright in the same way.
Thus his presence stimulated her and in no wise interfered with the concentration demanded by her typewriting practice.
Janet's offer to pool her secretarial jobs from all sources with her typewriting for the League had been very welcome to Robert.
Before she left home, she had taken a course in shorthand and typewriting (in the teeth of her mother's opposition) at an Evening High School.
For several mornings Robert and Janet pitched in with a will on the typewriting of Mr. Grey's manuscripts.
He was hard pressed for assistance; the League could just afford a part-time worker; there was a good deal of editing and typewriting which he was sure she could undertake.
The word-habit in typewriting furnishes an example of successive cooerdination, the uniting of a sequence of movements into a higher unit.
I sent her that to pay for some typewriting she did for me and because I knew she wouldn't take any money.
All she knew was that in the early forenoon she had been very restless, and that suddenly the restlessness vanished and that she was going on with her typewriting in a sort of grim content.
You were so darned good to me about the typewriting and it was all I could think of.
Before Migwan took to typewriting at night Betty had been in the habit of staying out of the house until supper was ready, and then getting up from the table and going out again immediately, leaving Migwan to get supper and wash the dishes.
Nyoda was inflexible about her stopping typewriting at nine o'clock, but she went home and wrote by hand until midnight.
In other words, typewriting individuality in many cases is of the most positive and convincing character and reaches a degree of certainty which may almost be described as absolute proof.
Since there are thousands of possible particulars in which differences may develop, it very soon becomes possible to identify positively the work of a particular typewriting machine.
The typewriting machine does not always afford an effective protection to the criminal.
I have also here another glass plate in which the lines diverge each at a very slightly different angle--a typewriting protractor for measuring the slant of divergence of various letters that have become twisted, so to speak.
On the contrary, the typewriting may be a direct means of tracing a document to its source and showing it to be what it really is.
She laid a sheet of typewriting on the laboratory table.
It may be well to state here that neither shorthand nor typewriting is requisite to the ultimate success of the journalistic aspirant.
Typewriting is somewhat expensive and often inaccurate, and unless you happen to possess your own typewriter, there is no reason why caligraphy should not suffice for your needs.
I bet you father will get a typewriting machine this year, and make me learn it.
So I learnt typewriting on the quiet, and left it all to try and find out whether something couldn't be done.
I shall have lessons in shorthand and typewriting at Pitman's School, and then I shall get a situation.
But I am now able to take dictation in Braille shorthand at the rate of one hundred and twenty words per minute and then transcribe my notes on any typewriting machine on the market just as speedily as the ordinary sighted typist.
It took me four months to master Braille, but I passed my typewriting test in less than three weeks.
Braille and typewriting were taken up as a matter of course.
I was pleased with my achievement in respect to the latter, as I had determined to take up stenography and typewriting as a profession.
And I never operated a typewriting machine before I became a student at St. Dunstan's.
As she came in, she handed a number of sheets of typewriting to Van Helsing.
For a moment I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on the great batch of typewriting on the table.
She blushed, a deep pink blush of intense annoyance, as the young man passed down the long platform among the crowd of city men and typewriting girls, patiently waiting for the belated train to allow them to go home from work.
Lots of the girls I was at school with are earning as much as a pound a week now--typewriting or painting birthday cards, and some of them are in the Post Office--and I do nothing but drudge away at home.
One of the office girls entered, bringing a white page of paper with three or four lines of purple typewriting upon it which Constance recognized must be a transcript of a message just received.
Alan, as he looked at it and turned the pages, saw that it contained two columns of typewriting carried from page to page after the manner of an account.
By the end of the summer of 1867 they had produced a typewriting machine that could be operated fairly rapidly and that produced fair work.
For a moment, I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on the table.
The printing telegraphs of to-day produce their messages by the direct operation of typewriting machines or mechanisms operating substantially in the same manner as the ordinary typewriting machine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "typewriting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cryptography; inscription; lettering; pen
