note of hand

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The Bible; New use of a note of hand; The Ship of Death; Taste in tombstones; Tennyson's Word-painting, 573.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Perhaps, if you had had strength and spirits enough, you would have felt offended by my offering a note of hand, or rather expressed it.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

The bundle of bank-notes which Herr von Osternau had returned to it on the previous day, after giving the note of hand to the Candidate, was gone.

From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph

We had been told that every baby was entitled to a litre of milk, which one of the farmers of the village would deliver to the mother on presentation of a note of hand.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

Was there any bond or note of hand hidden away somewhere?

From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph