How To Use Penman In A Sentence

  • It was a small white envelope, his address written with golden cursive penmanship.
  • With painstaking penmanship and a few erasures to correct spellings and numbers, the little girl explained herself.
  • Looking down at the paper in his lap, he could see how it resembled Claria's penmanship that he had read so many times in love letters.
  • Even Ken Follett, whose truly appalling novel World Without End befouled my mind for a fortnight, can been seen to have a positive effect; when I was reading some reviews to see if anyone else thought it as bad as I did, I came across a couple of approbatory references to Sharon Kay Penman, along the lines of "this is how it should be done". :Acquired Taste
  • Along with that were poems, all written in the same loopy penmanship on pieces of unlined white paper.
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  • What interests me in this conversation is the attitude towards conformity and individuality, and the resistance that the idea of universal penmanship skills raises.
  • That physical link - from the writer's heart and pen through the courier's hand to your own - gave a life to letters, and an intimacy born of penmanship and pensiveness.
  • All uncollected prizes for art, poetry, and penmanship can be collected from the parish office.
  • It was a small white envelope, his address written with golden cursive penmanship.
  • It was printed in what seemed to be manually-written impeccably neat cursive penmanship - very impressive.
  • It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
  • Her eyes teared over when she read the words, scrawled in Adam's familiar penmanship.
  • When I sat down, I was surprised to find the words flying around my head, begging to be the next one scrawled on the page in my less-than-perfect penmanship.
  • These might be brief glossaries, grammatical or rhetorical definitions, astronomical diagrams, tables of kindred and affinity, accounts, or tests of penmanship by the apprentice.
  • Unfolding the letter, she was overcome by surprise that his penmanship had improved greatly.
  • Upon this paper was only a single word, his name, and it was crafted in a fine golden penmanship.
  • On the writing area of the desk: Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship by Pratt Spencer, a reproduction from Mott Media. The Reading of Good Books
  • As I searched for more information, I wound reels of microfilm through microfilm readers until my elbow ached and my eyes blurred from deciphering the faded penmanship of long-dead army record-keepers.
  • There are some who would argue that the telephone and, more recently, email have destroyed the art of good penmanship in letter writing.
  • Her writing was laborious and she disliked penmanship lessons most of all, so naturally she was enthusiastic about a walk.
  • Aloysius Beauvier : And yet here one is. Penmanship is dying all across this country.
  • K . This was probably just poor penmanship on the part of a court clerk, however.
  • Her eyes sped across the paper, taking in every letter of her cramped penmanship.
  • The expression, and style, and love, intimate that the penman was the same with that of the foregoing epistle; he is now the elder, emphatically and eminently so; possibly the oldest apostle now living, the chief elder in the church of God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Every six weeks, semester, or year, we receive a scorecard as to how we have performed against the standards of penmanship, scientific understanding, and corporate budgets.
  • Not that it needed it, he thought, looking at the blurred lines where the ink had spread, making a mockery of his penmanship. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • “I am learned in the law,” I replied, “and a doctor of doctrine; an adept in art and science, a mathematician and a notable penman.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • You may want to practice your penmanship because you never know who's into graphology and having your handwriting analysed.
  • The most swift and tireless penmen appeared to keep the arm on the desk at all times and formed their letters with little or no motion of the fingers - a free and tireless style of penmanship.
  • Born in Billings, Montana, the man with the checked shirt and deep western drawl had his budding penmanship spurred on by the first film he ever saw, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • She intently studied his penmanship, admiring the elegant arches, careless flicks, and long loops of his letters.
  • It wasn't as though they were written down on teeny little Post-Its in crabbed penmanship and stuck onto the shelves backwards.
  • He was a prolific penman, a gifted and self-taught writer whose passionate works gave a romantic sheen to the elemental struggle for survival, and his lonely, self-divided existence was governed by the belief that "fear of death makes for life". Essays
  • I think you might have made a mistype, "Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship by Pratt Spencer," Should probably read Platt Spencer instead. The Reading of Good Books
  • His penmanship was very neat, and his letters and manuscripts, as completed by him, are without blots or erasures.
  • I have always been into penmanship and my parents even gave me a caligraphy set when I was a teenager. The Reading of Good Books
  • Anyway, we didn't get back until after three that afternoon and straightaway I checked with Penman about the Meg situation.
  • Watteau -- Watteau the painter -- not that superficies which is more or less familiar to every hack, be he limner or penman, who dabbles in the eighteenth century. Since Cézanne
  • He wore a yellow plastic name tag upon which he had scrawled ‘Jerry’ in kindergarten penmanship.
  • Even the sweetest letters I get nowadays look rushed, and the penmanship isn't good.
  • Ofelli themselves; whether the rapid pace at which the fancy moveth in such exercitations, where the wish of the penman is to him like Prince Count Robert of Paris
  • Penman suggested a collective theme of hardware and software when developing EDM control system under DOS.
  • I daresay a quarter of an hour's practice two or three times a day for a week or so will deliver me from the absurd necessity of having to call in the assistance of the neighbourhood to communicate my bits of news to you; not to say that dictation is only a degree less awkward than left-handed penmanship, having never tried it before in my life. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Moreover, through further analysis research to practice exploring content, the penman obtained some beneficial enlightenment, and utilized it in chemistry teaching.
  • It was tied up with string and read in scribbled, almost illegible, penmanship.
  • The sunlight was bright on his face, but he ignored the glare, his attention fixed mainly on the scratchy penmanship appearing beneath his quill pen, and occasionally, on the inkpot resting at his foot.
  • Her professors used to tease her about her careful penmanship, told her all real doctors had illegible scrawl, but she would just smile and tell them patients appreciate knowing what their prescription slips actually said.
  • I think you might have made a mistype, "Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship by Pratt Spencer," Should probably read Platt Spencer instead. The Reading of Good Books
  • Suppose yourself, brother penman, decorated with this ribbon, and looking in the glass, would you not laugh? Roundabout Papers
  • Then I read, and re-read, and re-re-read, and quadruply, quintuply, and sextuply re-read my epistle, until I had it all by heart, and then continued to re-read it for the sake of the penmanship. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
  • Bonus: Go down to Fantagraphics between noon and 1pm and meet iconic penman Jim Woodring. A Landmark House Party « PubliCola
  • They were set down with neat penmanship on small pieces of white paper decorated with hearts, flowers and blue ribbons.
  • I could retrain myself over a period of months and beat my scrawl towards something resembling readable penmanship but I think I'm just going to throw out all my writing utensils.
  • Worse yet, you're a plastic-penman who tries hard, but doesn't really fully understand the subject he is writing about. Robin van Persie fails to give Arsenal the power to pierce City armour | Richard Williams
  • I especially look forward to obtaining the Spencerian penmanship book especially after seeing your beautiful hand writing in the card you made. The Reading of Good Books
  • I'm one penman in their stable of travel writers - tell the good readers where to spend their vacation time.
  • Although this was the first time I had been late in my seventeen years of life, she was one of those rigid teachers who loathed latecomers and expected everyone to have her neat perfect penmanship.
  • ‘You have beautiful penmanship,’ I looked up at him.
  • This part of the story is related very particularly, perhaps because the penman was an eye-witness of the prudent and successful management of this affair, and remembered it with a great deal of pleasure. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • In a word, he was transformed from the penman into the captain and man-at-arms. Voltaire
  • We are told no more in the title of this book (which we have, v. 1) than that the penman was a prophet, a man divinely inspired and commissioned, which is enough (if that be so, we need not ask concerning his tribe or family, or the place of his birth), and that the book itself is the burden which he saw; he was as sure of the truth of it as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes already accomplished. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • The main skill they needed was good penmanship.
  • Instead of the smooth, cursive penmanship he was used to, he saw large, printed letters.
  • They were reared in splendour and tender affection, in respectful bearing and in the perfection of training; and they were instructed in penmanship and science and the arts of government and horsemanship, till they attained the extreme accomplishments and the utmost limit of beauty and loveliness; both men and women being ravished by their charms. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • So , it arouse reflection from penman about the relation between them.
  • Two powerful groups have opposed the teaching of penmanship - the techno-enthusiasts and the progressive educators.
  • Penman's account of four young men, all descendants of Stewart of Lorne, practising their shooting skills in order to pick the man with the best chance of success also chimes with Hunter's research.
  • The rest of the morning was filled with academic lessons: Math, History, Poetry, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, English and penmanship.
  • Penman said she was in favour of increasing awareness of the importance of languages, but concerned about the removal of compulsion.
  • Readers of the lamented but never forgotten Pillbox may remember a letter Penman received from Brian Anderson of the neo-Conservative City Journal.
  • The reading they seek is not that of the Divine Author but of the penman.
  • I would almost suggest this young chap take up writing instead of drawing, but one look at this penmanship and I know that would be just as futile a pursuit.
  • Writing them out may have been partly an exercise in penmanship - he employed the flourishes of someone who is proud of a newly acquired skill - but the Rules were also obviously meant to be learned.
  • These penmanship skills were part of both boys’ and girls' education.
  • Her eyes sped across the paper, taking in every letter of her cramped penmanship.
  • She was reared with her father and mother in honour and indulgence and learnt rhetoric and penmanship and arithmetic and cavalarice and all manner crafts, such as broidery and sewing and weaving and girdle-making and silk-cord making and damascening gold on silver and silver on gold, brief all the arts both of men and women, till she became the union-pearl of her time and the unique gem of her age and day. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It was a small white envelope, his address written with golden cursive penmanship.

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