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Updated: June 28, 2025
And his hair looked as if the calf had been at it. Wouldn't you think somebody would have told her? And that isn't all. She got the premium! Neither am I prepared to pass judgment on the fancy penmanship displayed by Professor Swope, framed elegantly in black walnut, and gilt, depicting a bounding deer, all made out of hair-line, shaded spirals, done with his facile pen.
Like most working-people he was necessarily limited in his social relations to his immediate neighbors, the relatives he could get at easily in his free hours holidays and Sundays and after his eight hours of work was done. The mason's hands were not formed for much penmanship!
"I, sir, am a member of the Clare County Medical Society I was once President of that learned body, and have since then for seven consecutive years been its Secretary my penmanship being illegible to the other members, and often to myself, preventing many disagreements, by precluding a successful reference to the minutes of past meetings.
I applied myself to geography, chronology, and to speak the Arabian language in its purity; not forgetting in the meantime all such exercises as were proper for a prince to understand. But one thing which I was fond of, and succeeded in, was penmanship; wherein I surpassed all the celebrated scribes of our kingdom.
I admit that there are instances in which the character of the man decides the style of his penmanship. Lord Byron's autograph was as reckless as its author. George Washington's signature was a reflection of his dignity. The handwriting of Samuel Rogers was as smooth as his own nature. Robespierre's fierce-looking autograph seems to have been written with the dagger of a French revolution.
Pen and ink on the table, alongside the more sinister bottle, told of an act of penmanship. "We'll have the night clerk and some one else witness the signatures," he said quietly. "All right," said Braddock hoarsely. He was staring at his fingers, which he twiddled in a nerveless, irresolute manner. "The inside conditions are between you and me personally.
The Captain laid down his paper, and slowly made his way through Bessie's lengthy epistle, which, although prettily written, with a good deal of grace in the slopes and curves of the penmanship, gave him considerable trouble to decipher.
Some of us believed that the classical attainments of this phenomenon were terrific, but that his penmanship and arithmetic were defective, and he had come there to mend them; others, that he was going to set up a school, and had paid the Chief 'twenty-five pound down, for leave to see Our School at work.
Their notes lingered in my ears for a great many years, and I can still hum some of them. We drew plain figures, blocks, cones, the sides and roofs of buildings and outlines of trees. In penmanship I made no progress, and it was always unformed and illiterate until I was a man, and took it in hand without a teacher.
This loss of muscular vigor is shown by the unsteady condition of the muscles, the trembling hand, and the inability to do with precision and accuracy any fine work, as in drawing or nice penmanship. Additional Experiments. Experiment 23. To examine the minute structure of voluntary muscular fiber.
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