chirography

Thus all mistakes arising from blind chirography will be thoroughly appreciated by our citizens.

Their promoters won't concede that this may explain the decline of fine chirography, as some writing professionals charge.

Clean, clear chirography showed consideration and thought.

"They contain," he added, "some specimens of the witness's chirography of about the same date as the will."

Even his chirography was like copperplate."

Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals.

The fact is, my chirography varies so much from time to time that I often find it difficult for me to verify my own signatures."

The disguised, deliberately clumsy chirography was also similar, but there was a distinct difference in the way it was worded.

An expert at chirography would doubtless have distinguished in the lines traces of a violent temperament, of a character stern and unsocial.

I shall also cable for Graham, the expert on chirography and on all kinds of forgeries, and we will have his decision upon that will.

The Pennells also described him as "a teacher of polite chirography (calligraphy)" who used to speak of Whistler as "me son-in-law."

She has a beautiful white hand, but her handwriting is infamous; she writes fast and her chirography is of the door-plate order--her letters are immense.

This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.

Before servants he seldom hid any paper which he might by studying, since he rightly assumed that Curwen's intricate and archaic chirography would be too much for them.

"That solves one riddle, here is the other," and Miss Carleton handed her lover a small note, covered with a fine, delicate chirography whose perfectly formed characters revealed a mind accustomed to the study of minute details and appreciative of their significance.

Ephraim M. Wright and Nathaniel B. Shurtleff were appointed to take charge of the printing, and David Pulsifer, who was acknowledged to be especially skilful in deciphering the chirography of the 17th century, was charged with the copying.

Of his work, Samuel F. Haven, in his introduction to the printed records in the Archaeologia, says: "He unites the qualities of an expert in chirography with a genuine antiquarian taste and much familiarity with ancient records."

While I was writing in my clear and painstaking chirography, which I try not to take a too great pride in because of its fine shading and skillful flourishes, the guests of the afternoon were making their adieux and taking their departure, some afoot, others on horseback.

He still retained in his possession the stenographic notes of the original document as it had been dictated by Hugh Mainwaring on that last morning of his life, and it was but the work of an hour or two to again transcribe them in his clear chirography.

There were cryptic formulae and diagrams in his and other hands which Ward now either copied with care or had photographed, and one extremely mysterious letter in a chirography that the searcher recognised from items in the Registry of Deeds as positively Joseph Curwen's.

Willett lighted the lamp and looked carefully at the pad, to see what notes Ward might have been jotting down when interrupted; but found nothing more intelligible than the following disjointed fragments in that crabbed Curwen chirography, which shed no light on the case as a whole: 'B. dy'd not.