How To Use Boustrophedon In A Sentence
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I couldn’t very well tell him the truth, that it was my own system, a boustrophedonic code based on six languages, three alphabets, a variety of symbols mathematical and chemical, and a hieroglyphic, designed to keep up with even the fastest of lecturers and leave me time to record nonverbal data, as well.
A Letter of Mary
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[or rather, down, up, down: the form of writing known as boustrophedon, that is, the way an ox turns in a furrow].
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
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The more indecisive used a curious system known as boustrophedon in which the text would run from left to right, reach the end of the line and double back to run right to left like the furrows of a plough!
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Rational Review
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This winding path is yet again an otherworldly symbolism and is related to the reason why ancient inscriptions in Etruria and in the Aegean area were sometimes written in a boustrophedon or spiral pattern.
Archive 2009-03-01
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At that time the Greeks did not use Upper and Lower case letters, nor did they use punctuation so reading a piece of boustrophedon writing is challenging.
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There's also the matter of the winding boustrophedon path of the pawns along the three rows of the board at least, according to Timothy Kendall's rules.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Greek alphabet, written from right to left, or in boustrophedon.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Etruscan was sometimes written in boustrophedon fashion and sometimes from right to left in horizontal lines.
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The first is the back-and-forth meandering pattern known as boustrophedon.
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P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS.
Ulysses
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The only trick the designer has failed to borrow from ancient Greek inscriptions is the boustrophedon, the ‘ploughman style’ in which words are written with alternate lines left to right then right to left.
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P.O. Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS.
Ulysses
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Whereas, false boustrophedon, alternate lines instead of having vertical orientation will curl around upside down, this also being called Schlangenschrift which means snake-writing.
2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Or consider the Etruscan habit of writing in "boustrophedon style.
Archive 2006-02-01
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In the same excavations on Temple Hill, Robinson found a second example of a similar Archaic sacrificial calendar incised, boustrophedon, in the epichoric Corinthian alphabet, this time on a fragmentary lead tablet.
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It was written on ostrich skin in the boustrophedon style, in which one line was read from left to right and the next from right to left and so on.
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