Returning to the study, Karl ordered me to get up and prepare to write from dictation.

Now letters went to the coast every week.... 'My dear sir,' he cried, 'I write from dictation.' I demanded rivets.

Fancy a devoted creature like that being employed to carry about documents sewn in her dress, or made to write from dictation.

She was a practiced stenographer, was accustomed to write from dictation and to read aloud, could correct proof, and had some admirable references.

Write from dictation when you are dictated to; that is your job!

Their exercises in reading, speaking with one another, and writing from dictation, succeeded perfectly.

He writes as a clerk writes from dictation.

'Oh, very well, sir,' said Paul, and went on writing from dictation.

'My dear sir,' he cried, 'I write from dictation.'

'If you do not fancy writing from dictation,' I said, 'why don't you try typewriting?

"I can write from dictation in French, Latin, and Spanish."

"I am very sorry I couldn't go on writing from dictation, Ma," sobbed Caddy.

'One who writes from dictation; copies manuscripts.

You are not used to writing from dictation; and I daresay I have been too quick for you. He kissed me and encouraged me.

The necessity of remembering the passage acts as a distraction, and writing from dictation is therefore a more difficult task than writing from copy.