chirography
Example Sentences
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Not its content, but its chirography: stubborn, insecure, self-centered, secretive, ungenerous and frigid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent.
From Time Magazine Archive
She looked at the letter—her own familiar chirography started her out of countenance.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
We shall not object to your chirography, so you must practise it often, and let me hear of your progress and well-doing.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
Upon attempting to read the manuscript I at first found myself puzzled by a style of chirography very peculiar and characteristic, but execrably bad.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri
