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Updated: June 10, 2025
'I must have been quoting the headings of a copy-book. Lucy felt that she must say something. She had been watching Alec, and her heart was nearly breaking. She turned to Dick. 'Are you going down to Southampton? she asked. 'I am, indeed, he answered. 'I shall hide my face on Alec's shoulder and weep salt tears.
Now my own fear touching anything in the way of phonetic spelling is that it would simply increase this tendency to use words as counters and not as coins. Suppose any sentence you like: suppose a man says, "Republics generally encourage holidays." It looks like the top line of a copy-book.
There was a French Minister of Education who drew up a most rigid Time-Code, which hung in his bureau; and it was the joy of his life to take out his watch and say 'Half-past three! Ha! every boy in France is now learning geography'; or, 'A quarter to twelve! Ha! every French schoolgirl is now writing in a copy-book. I have the same sort of feeling about my actor-acquaintances. 'Half-past nine?
'I said you were no more like candy than a c. b. p. There is a difference. 'Is there? My poor brain fails to grasp it. But never mind; I'll forgive you. 'Listeners never hear good of themselves, sighed Polly. 'Are you writing a copy-book, Miss Oliver? I didn't want to listen; it was very painful to my feelings, but I was too sleepy to move.
He sat down at the table, got out a couple of notebooks a diary and the copy-book in which it was his custom every evening to inscribe the tasks performed by or awaiting him and, continually frowning and touching his cheek with his hand, continued writing for a while.
Hugh had never been more astonished in his life. Mr. Tooke praised his theme very much, and said it had surprised him. He did not mind the blots and mistakes, which would, he said, have been great faults in a copy-book, but were of less consequence than other things in a theme. Time and pains would correct slovenliness of that kind; and the thoughts and language were good.
III., on exactly the same principles, and with just the same amount of intelligence as a boy's in scrawling his copy-book when he cannot write. The device was thought ingenious at one period of architectural history; St. Paul's and Whitehall are covered with it, and it is in this I imagine that some of our modern architects suppose the great merit of those buildings to consist.
My copy-book I wonder who'll set copies for me now; my arithmetic, that's you! geography and atlas all right; and my slate; but dear me, I don't believe I've such a thing as a slate-pencil in the world; where shall I get one, I wonder? well, I'll manage. And that's all that's all, I believe."
Life, liberty, honor, and property are frequently balanced on a pen point a few marks of the pen being the determining feature of many a case. The handwriting of the schoolboy and schoolgirl, though crude, is conventional and idealized. It has but few characteristics so long as the school model or copy-book hand is the goal.
But this is not the first time I have seen it, as you remember very well. I have been here often lately." "But you never attend to me here, uncle! And I want so to show you my desk, where I keep my copy-book, and the work-box you gave me on my birthday." "Well, you can show me now, cannot you? So, this is your desk! It seems convenient enough, whatever we may think of its beauty.
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