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Meanings of running hand in English

Portuguese
letra cursiva

Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper.

        letra cursiva
        Usage of running hand in English
        1
        It was written in English, in a fine running hand.
        The Inn at the Red Oak
        2
        Scribbled in haste with the running hand of yours to command, Francis Malet, Priest.
        Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and li...
        3
        Neither too rounded nor too fine, it is a running hand, yet always suitable.
        Poor Folk
        4
        Then I wrote the following in a running hand:
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
        5
        There is the round hand, and the Italian hand, the text hand, and the running hand.
        Four Early Pamphlets
        6
        The letter was penned in a large running hand and covered eight pages of dainty cream-laid paper.
        Princess
        7
        My teammates had abandoned me in the dugout, running hand in hand with parents to their family cars.
        Mysterious Skin
        8
        Then the question was asked: Any idea who wrote this diary-theone written in a quick running hand?'
        Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated
        9
        The image of a woman clad in a traditional cheongsam running hand-in-hand with her young son struck Qiu deeply.
        Reuters
        10
        It was about a quire of folio paper, written in a large and running hand, very like his own.
        Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
        11
        This they undertook to do, by main strength and sweat, running hand over hand the float-line of a net.
        Tales of the Fish Patrol
        12
        She wrote with a firm, running hand, and as from an overflowing mind, without stopping to gather her thoughts.
        The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
        13
        It is written in the common running hand of the sixteenth century (carrattere corsivo), tolerably distinct, but badly pointed.
        The Voyage of Verrazzano / A Chapter in the Early History of Mar...
        14
        On top of my mail next morning lay a small envelope, unstamped, and addressed to me in a free running hand.
        The House of a Thousand Candles
        15
        Then, running hand in hand toward the huge space-cruiser, they were snatched apart and drawn up toward the double airlocks of the main entrance.
        Spacehounds of IPC
        16
        This solution presupposed a highly developed sense of community devotion in women running hand in hand with entire lack of gift for community action.
        Mobilizing Woman-Power
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        Translations for running hand
        Portuguese
        letra cursiva
        Running hand through the time