The writing was the hurried, illegible hand of an author.

It bears some lines traced in a cramped, peculiar, and all but illegible hand.

The Advocate's answer, scrawled in his nearly illegible hand, was-

In a cramped and almost illegible hand the old wanderer of the mountains had written:

Many thanks to Stella Gordon for her patient Champollion-Ventris flair for decyphering an illegible hand.

She opened another, in a careless and very illegible hand, which she could not recognise at all:

Daily orders are written in an illegible hand on yellow slips & these are added up monthly.

Then he took the two dollars, and, putting the money into an envelope, indorsed it in his illegible hand.

It contained only a half-sheet of paper, with these words written upon it in the cramped half- illegible hand which figured on the outside:

After the powerful stimulant the doctor administered had begun to take effect, Allison managed to write, in a very shaky, almost illegible hand:

(In a small, rather illegible hand.)