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Handwriting   /hˈændrˌaɪtɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Handwriting  n.  
1.
The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
2.
That which is written by hand; manuscript.
The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster.






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"Handwriting" Quotes from Famous Books



... about Mr. Diedrich Knickerbocker, who was missing so strangely from his lodgings some time since. Nothing satisfactory has been heard of the old gentleman since; but a very curious kind of a written book has been found in his room in his own handwriting. Now I wish you to notice him, if he is still alive, that if he does not return and pay off his bill for board and lodging, I shall have to dispose of his Book, to satisfy me for ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

... expert chirographist. To have deceived him with a disguised handwriting would have been utterly impossible, and none knew it better than Chick, who now ...
— With Links of Steel • Nicholas Carter

... nice bit from my servant when he handed me your letter this morning. Knowing your handwriting, he said sighing: "Ah! the best one was not there last evening!" That is just ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... the world's larger hope. Pessimists there are who say that human nature is belligerent, and that war will never be abolished. But international warfare has already seen the handwriting on the wall. Mars has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. The fruitless slaughter of the millions is not to be forever nor for long. Let us hasten the day when the rolling war drum will be hushed forever, ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

... contemplating the anonymous letter which she had left with him, studying both its contents and the handwriting. ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve


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