Usage of "chirography"

portugués

caligrafia

catalán

cal·ligrafia

español

caligrafía

Beautiful handwriting.

caligrafía

Sinónimos

Examples for "penmanship"

penmanship
calligraphy

Examples for "penmanship"

Not that I would have anyone think that the penmanship is mine. 
 Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln 

He was very fond of showing his penmanship, which was remarkably good. 
 Aylwin 

His specialties were mathematics, penmanship, bookkeeping, business science and forms, and navigation. 
 Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter / By E. Ben Ez-er 

You were always good in English, and you have your grandmother's beautiful penmanship. 
 Pasta Imperfect 

Not long after, a short letter, written with unsteady penmanship, arrived from Willingham. 
 The devil and sherlock holmes: tales of murder, madness, and obs... 

It is a stunningly beautiful building of great simplicity and complex calligraphy. 
 The Irish Times 

A mistake, already: Tsunehiko's skills at calligraphy and taking dictation were minimal. 
 Shinjū 

She had calligraphy written all over her body for filmmaker-turned-artist Vincent Ward. 
 Radio NZ 

That, and that everyone dressed up and wore plastic calligraphy name tags. 
 Mooch 

A piece of calligraphy in the long Islamic gallery caught my eye. 
 Demon: a memoir 

Uso de chirography en inglés

He had become familiar with those words, written in that peculiar chirography. 
 Starr, of the Desert 

Miserable chirography is one of the most prolific causes of Post-office inefficiency. 
 Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati... 

Well, the actual chirography of the absentee would be made manifest before long. 
 Bertram Cope's Year 

The soldiers supplied all needed chirography, and the bills obtained a wide circulation. 
 Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /... 

I was surprised, moreover, to see the clearness and accuracy of the chirography. 
 Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. 

The very chirography gave evidence of a rude, almost uncivilized mind. 
 By the Light of the Soul: A Novel 

George W. Peck's hand is of the free and independent order of chirography. 
 Remarks 

Looked like a young woman's chirography, and it was from London- 
 Castle Craneycrow 

The chirography was the same as that upon the note of the racing-car episode. 
 The Voice on the Wire 

There is an inimitable looseness of design in the chirography of an illiterate person. 
 Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story 

The single missive was directed to herself, in a chirography which she well knew. 
 Angel Agnes / The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shrevepo... 

Holloway completed the letter, albeit with a nervous chirography, and handed him the envelope. 
 The Voice on the Wire 

My chirography always was abominable, but now it is outrageous. 
 Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. 

His clear, bold chirography will not add a mite to its value, Miss Parker. 
 The Pride of Palomar 

It was Frederic Chilton's name in Mrs. Sutton's quaint, old-fashioned "back-hand" chirography. 
 At Last: A Novel 

The student broke its well-known seal, and read, in a delicate chirography, the following words:- 
 Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G... 