note of hand

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Quick as lightning, I cut the thread, put in my fingers, drew out the very document of which I was in search, and the note of hand within it.

From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline

Barbu wrote at once a note of hand, gave it to the smart bustling sergeant, and the day after ten sacks of coal were brought and discharged in the coach-house.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

Why is a note of hand like a rosebud?

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.

I knew very well that a tidy wench would be more apt to get hold of my carefully guarded note of hand than would any of my brawling comrades.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

His creditors, hitherto most patient, besieged him, and in one case, where he had imprudently given his note of hand, he was threatened with a complaint to be lodged with his commanding officer.

From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph