Use manuscript in a sentence
Sentences ending with manuscript
- Tell me--how did you get hold of that page of manuscript? [5]
- On the floor were sheets of manuscript. [5]
- If she borrowed the Great Idea, did she carry it away in her head, or in manuscript? [5]
- My young friend, the Astronomer, has, I suspect, been making some addition to his manuscript. [6]
- I wrote your speech myself, and you read it from my manuscript. [5]
- For this I shall have to refer to a paper of which I have made a copy, and which will be found included with this manuscript. [6]
- Her only delight seemed to be in listening to Gifted as he read, sometimes with fine declamatory emphasis, sometimes in low, tremulous tones, the various poems enshrined in his manuscript. [6]
- Does all this seem strange and incredible to the reader of my manuscript? [6]
- There was another pine table in the room and another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under newspapers and scraps and sheets of manuscript. [5]
- He was still in Virginia when it was printed, and the printers made sad work of parts of his manuscript. [4]
Sentences containing manuscript two or more times
- The manuscript had therefore been put in the graveyard of manuscripts, from which there is commonly no resurrection except in the funeral progress of the manuscript back to the author. [4]
More example sentences with the word manuscript in them
- Later, when the young ladies were asleep, he carried his manuscript to the Democrat office, and delivered it into the hands of his friend, the night editor, who was awaiting it. [9]
- The third--Charlotte's contribution--is yet in manuscript, but will be published shortly after the appearance of this memoir. [14]
- At intervals he would come to the Fosters to read a manuscript of his own. [4]
- We have seen with what astonishment the old Dutch scholar, Groen van Prinsterer, looked upon a man who had wrestled with authors like Bor and Van Meteren, who had grappled with the mightiest folios and toiled undiscouraged among half-illegible manuscript records. [6]
- Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
- The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
- A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split. [10]
- But their testimony, while of consequence, lacks the most important detail; so far as my information goes, the Quimby manuscript has not been produced. [5]
- From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
- Yet when I went to Lepsius, the most earnest of my teachers, to show him the finished manuscript, I felt very anxious. [10]
- Yes, the doctor went on with his reflections, I do not know that I have seen the term Gynophobia before I opened this manuscript, but I have seen the malady many times. [6]
- And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers' hands by the middle of July. [5]
- Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
- I confess I was appalled when I cast my eye upon the title of the manuscript, "Cirri and Nebulae. [6]
- The Oxford tract was also republished by Purchas in his "Pilgrimes," extended by new matter in manuscript supplied by Smith. [4]
- But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
- When the following verses were taken out of the urn, the Mistress asked me to hand the manuscript to the young Doctor to read. [6]
- Of course, I use the contemporary historians and pamphleteers,--Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English,--but the most valuable of my sources are manuscript ones. [6]
- I am piling up manuscript in a really astonishing way. [5]
- Each in her turn stepped forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manuscript (tied with dainty ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored attention to "expression" and punctuation. [5]
- It is curious to see that a medical work left in manuscript by the Rev. [3]
- I had submitted to me for examination, in 1862, a manuscript found among the Winthrop Papers, marked with the superscription, "For my worthy friend Mr. Wintrop," dated in 1643, London, signed Edward Stafford, and containing medical directions and prescriptions. [3]
- When he went to his office the next morning he sent for the manuscript, looked it over critically, and then announced to his partners that he thought the thing was worth trying. [4]
- If you wish to have this in writing, we'll reduce it into manuscript immediately. [12]
- I am ashamed to confess what an intolerable pile of manuscript I ground out in the 35 days, therefore I will keep the number of words to myself. [5]
- Well, it began to come a week ago; my note-book comes out more and more frequently every day since; 3 days ago I concluded to move my manuscript over to my den. [5]
- I would go through the manuscript but I am too much driven just now, and it is not important anyway. [5]
- Now, here is this manuscript, and here is a letter I wrote this morning. [11]
- Now our friend, there, knows verses that are salable and unsalable as well as you do brown sugar.--Keep quiet now, and I will go and get your manuscript for you. [6]
- If he does, there comes on a loathing for it which is intense, so that the sight of the old battered manuscript is as bad as sea-sickness. [6]
- Its characters shaped themselves gradually as the manuscript grew under my hand. [6]
- The ship conveying them was stranded at the mouth of the Elbe and my precious manuscript perished miserably in the wreck. [10]
- He took up the second manuscript, opened it in several places, seemed rather pleased with what he read, and laid it aside for further examination. [6]
- I have had the privilege of examining a manuscript of Cotton Mather's relating to medicine, by the kindness of the librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, to which society it belongs. [3]
- Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business. [5]
- He came on the platform, held his manuscript down, and began with a beautiful piece of oratory. [5]
- He had closed the manuscript then with the taking of Orleans, and was by no means sure that he would continue the story beyond that point. [5]
- The Butcher opened the manuscript at random, read ten seconds, and gave a short low grunt. [6]
- A manuscript accompanying the letter is offered for publication. [6]
- He retaliated upon the general condition of art among us the pangs of wounded vanity, which Alma had made him feel, and he folded up his manuscript and put it in his pocket, almost healed of his humiliation. [8]
- The Butcher took the first manuscript that came to hand, read a stanza here and there, turned over the leaves, turned back and tried again,--shook his head--held it for an instant over the basket, as if doubtful,--and let it softly drop. [6]
- Here you have the extracts I spoke of from the manuscript placed in my hands for revision and emendation. [6]
- The manuscript of the book was complete within four weeks. [11]
- The manuscript of the "Observations" was received by Professor Smyth, as he tells us in his introduction, about fifteen years ago, from the late Reverend William T. Dwight, D. D., to whom it was bequeathed by his brother, the Reverend Dr. Sereno E. Dwight. [6]
- The only manuscript that we ever held of his, longer than to correct it, was one of perhaps a dozen pages, most of which we had composed. [5]
- With a smile, that was meant to conceal even from himself his deep inward agitation, he broke the wax which sealed the short manuscript in the royal hand. [10]
- I wanted to take the book from him, but he fled with the roll, sprang out of window, let himself down to the edge of the well, and tore and rubbed the manuscript to pieces in a rage. [10]
- Did Smith see Strachey's manuscript before he published his Oxford tract, or did Strachey enlarge his own notes from Smith's description? [4]
- They and their story were there for eyes to see and read, and when I had ended my manuscript in the year 1900 I had said the last word I ever meant to say as to their history. [11]
- Now the dwarf spoke again: "It was rather pitiful, rather small, in you to refuse to read that poor young woman's manuscript the other day, and give her an opinion as to its literary value; and she had come so far, too, and so hopefully. [5]
- Why don't you send your manuscript by mail? [6]
- But he had scarcely begun to be absorbed in the new copy of the best manuscript of Apuleius, which had readied him from Florence, and make notes in the first Roman printed work of this author, when Cassian interrupted him. [10]
- On the platform sat the chairman, and by his side sat a man who held a manuscript in his hand and had the waiting look of one who is going to perform the principal part. [5]
- I had not said even a word in allusion to what I was doing in the evening hours, and the three volumes of my large manuscript were received by him in a way that warranted the worst fears. [10]
- Archibius took a roll of manuscript from Dion's hand, presented himself before the assembled company as the bride's kyrios, or guardian, and asked Barine whether she so recognized him. [10]
- Years after a reporter called on Mr. Clemens and submitted the manuscript of the speech, which was as follows: Day after to-morrow I sail for England in a ship of this line, the Paris. [5]
- In Tasmania I read the entry, in an old manuscript official record, of a case where a convict was given three hundred lashes--for stealing some silver spoons. [5]
- I went and pulled the manuscript out of his mouth, and found that the sensitive creature had choked to death on one of the mildest and gentlest statements of fact that I ever laid before a trusting public. [5]
- As the little procession entered the gallery, in which the rolls of manuscript lay in stone or wooden cases on long rows of shelves, the shout was heard of "Hail, Caesar! [10]
- The manuscript was probably taken home by Captain Nelson, and it was published in London in 1608. [4]
- But the earlier portions of the manuscript are of perfectly normal appearance. [6]
- I wrote 280 pages on a yarn called "Tom Sawyer Abroad," then took up the "Twins" again, destroyed the last half of the manuscript and re-wrote it in another form, and am going to continue it and finish it in Florence. [5]
- Not long after our visit to the Observatory, the Young Astronomer put a package into my hands, a manuscript, evidently, which he said he would like to have me glance over. [6]
- He is not only sly, but is keen-witted, and he has at once connected the complaint which I have threatened to bring against him with the manuscript which Serapion, the recluse, gave me in his presence. [10]
- Her mind was on something else, and she had got two stories mixed up and sent her manuscript without having looked it over. [6]
- And if any of these, my old playmates, could read this manuscript, perchance they might feel a tingle of recollection of Children's Day, when Maryland was a province. [9]
- He was thinking of some phrases in a manuscript which he had found in this box. [11]
- The mechanical obstacles of half-illegible manuscript, of antiquated forms of speech, to say nothing of the intentional obscurities of diplomatic correspondence, stand, however, in the way of all but the resolute and unwearied scholar. [6]
- In the course of a week I had not merely read the manuscript, but had copied a great deal of what seemed to me best worth preservation, including the verses. [10]
- Apparently he was not without doubt concerning the manuscript, and accompanied it with a brief line. [5]
- He opened once more, read five seconds, and, with something that sounded like the snort of a dangerous animal, cast it impatiently into the basket, and took up the manuscript that came next in order. [6]
- She found her more than once busy at her desk, with a manuscript before her, which she turned over and placed inside the desk, as Euthymia entered. [6]
- He paused a moment at the door, and seemed struggling to command his feelings sufficiently to enable him to speak, and then, nodding his head toward his manuscript, ejaculated in a broken voice, "Friend of mine--oh! [5]
- When the proper moment arrives, I lift the cover of the urn and take out any manuscript it may contain. [6]
- I had the manuscript tucked under a United States flag in front of me where I could get at it in case of need. [5]
- He held a manuscript roll in his hand, and greeted her from afar with a friendly wave of his hand. [10]
- I passed my manuscript over to the chief editor for acceptance, alteration, or destruction. [5]
- He laid the manuscript on the table, caressing the leaves still with one hand, as loath to let it go. [6]
- We saw a manuscript of Virgil, with annotations in the handwriting of Petrarch, the gentleman who loved another man's Laura, and lavished upon her all through life a love which was a clear waste of the raw material. [5]
- There was a manuscript of some hundred pages, closely written, in which the poor things had chronicled for many years the incidents of their daily life. [6]
- There is a manuscript note on the fly-leaf of one of the original editions of "The Map of Virginia...." (Oxford, 1612), in ancient chirography, but which from its reference to Fuller could not have been written until more than thirty years after Smith's death. [4]
- The other old manuscript Mr. Gardner sends me is marked "'Song for Knights of Square Table,' R.W.E. [6]
- I took the manuscript from his hands and read the following continuation of the lines he had begun to read me, while he made up for two or three nights' lost sleep as he best might. [6]
- He carried his manuscript back with him, having relinquished the idea of publishing for the present. [6]
- I gave the manuscript back to him, and we started back to get an inquest. [5]
- I gave the manuscript back to him and we started out to get an inquest, for we heard pistol shots near by. [5]
- I carried the manuscript back and forth across the Atlantic two or three times, and read it and studied over it on shipboard; and at last I saw where the difficulty lay. [5]
- It is a little book, a manuscript compilation, and the compiler sent it to me with the request that I say whether I think it ought to be published or not. [5]
- Of course, any literary suggestion from "Brother Sam" was gospel to Orion, who began at once piling up manuscript at a great rate. [5]
- The next brief line refers to the manuscript of his article, "Saint Joan of Arc," presented to the museum at Rouen. [5]
- On the second line of the first page of our manuscript, it is stated that it came from Sais. [10]
- Frothingham, Octavius Brooks: Life of Ripley, 165; an unpublished manuscript, 365-367. [6]
- The manuscript still lies in my desk unpublished. [10]
- The young man laid open the manuscript so that the title-page, written out very handsomely in his own hand, should win the eye of the publisher. [6]
- He did not know that manuscript is to type what fresh dandelions are to the dish of greens that comes to table, of which last Nurse Byloe, who considered them very wholesome spring grazing for her patients, used to say that they "biled down dreadful. [6]
- One account of it says that the manuscript leans toward Sabellianism, and that it even approaches Pelagianism. [6]
- Our own inference is, from all the circumstances, that Strachey began his manuscript in Virginia or shortly after his return, and added to it and corrected it from time to time up to 1616. [4]
- The senator's figure is not impressive, his voice less so, and he reads from manuscript, to the accompaniment of continual cries of "Louder! [9]
- Some passages contained in the original manuscript of the Address, and omitted in the delivery on account of its length, are restored in the text or incorporated with these Notes. [6]
- I found them in manuscript in my drawer, and as my subject had naturally suggested the train of thought they carried out into extravagance, I printed them. [6]
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