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Meanings of manual typewriter in English

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Usage of manual typewriter in English
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The address and return address are typed, badly, on a manual typewriter.
The life you've imagined
2
He nods again, then pushes the antique portable manual typewriter toward me.
The Atrocity Archives
3
They made a little mechanical clicking sound that reminded me of a manual typewriter.
Ghost Story
4
He was an LD with a Royal manual typewriter.
Raising Stony Mayhall
5
With a manual typewriter you want a little bounce.
The new yorker
6
The words had been typed with a manual typewriter, something Gordon had not seen in some years.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
7
The address had obviously been typed on an ancient manual typewriter, but there was no return address.
Beneath a southern sky
8
A guard sitting at a manual typewriter stared up on a Wednesday night and asked for a name.
Reuters
9
A dark-haired receptionist sat at her desk, nibbling on beef jerky, one hand typing fiercely at a manual typewriter.
Mysterious Skin
10
Brand-new twenty months ago, it was probably now as obsolete as the manual typewriter she used when the generator conked out.
Acts of faith
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I was introduced to a young lady in jeans who sat at a desk behind a massive and ancient manual typewriter.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
12
The New Covenant approach to governing is as different from the old bureaucratic way as the computer is from the manual typewriter.
State of the Union Addresses
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But what really marked him out was the speed at which he could produce it, initially banging away on a manual typewriter.
The Irish Times
14
As someone who still remains at times cussedly loyal to an old manual typewriter, I recoil from such modern and impersonal traits.
The Guardian
15
I used an old manual typewriter and it's true that I found several layers of milk of magnesia just as effective as Tippex!
The Irish Times
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Not a lot further down the bar, an old-fashioned manual typewriter was being operated by the invisible hands of a real ghost writer.
The unnatural inquirer
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