He had heard the Duke of Marlborough was no special good penman. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
He is a good penman, correct accountant, and acquainted with correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
You say, too, that you know shorthand, and I know that you are a good penman. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
Greene was also a good penman, and would be useful to Hudson in that capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
In a word, he was transformed from the penman into the captain and man-at-arms. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
"How much splendor the penman has shown!" she murmured, her breath on his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He is an expert penman, and most likely a regular forger as well as counterfeiter. From Wordnik.com. [The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective] Reference
On it were traced some lines by one who was evidently a highly accomplished penman. From Wordnik.com. [Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival] Reference
Surely she could not imagine a young girl needing the services of an expert penman?. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays] Reference
"He was an excellent penman, a good painter, and as a household manager was unequalled.". From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Bonus: Go down to Fantagraphics between noon and 1pm and meet iconic penman Jim Woodring. From Wordnik.com. [A Landmark House Party « PubliCola] Reference
She is a good penman, an acceptable teacher and is making a record of commendable usefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Then gentlemen were eager for a good penman, as lame people are for their crutch, for they were rare. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
The common circumstances of this psalm, concerning the penman, title, and the like, I shall not at all inquire after. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Worse yet, you're a plastic-penman who tries hard, but doesn't really fully understand the subject he is writing about. From Wordnik.com. [Robin van Persie fails to give Arsenal the power to pierce City armour | Richard Williams] Reference
How I Came to Canada, and I had consented on condition she would write down what I said, for I am a poor penman and no speller. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
It would be great presumption in so humble a penman as myself to choose, even for the hero of my tale, a man of eminent distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Of course, had my brother Solomon been taken, he would surely have written regularly, for he was a great penman, may he rest in peace. From Wordnik.com. [In Those Days The Story of an Old Man] Reference
To earlier documents he was wont to affix a simple neat signature, and although not a clerkly penman like his friends John Tinker, Master. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
That penman trumpeter's part in the wreck discern. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
To the penman, the saving in labor is insignificant. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference
"Yes, Ned, lovely and glorious," said the penman sadly. From Wordnik.com. [The Peril Finders] Reference
But neither of them spoke, and the penman said sharply. From Wordnik.com. [The Peril Finders] Reference
Gouverneur Morris, penman and signer of the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Dakota Voice] Reference
The style is indeed august; but the real penman is not the. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Since that time the poor penman had never a place to call his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909] Reference
He became a skillful penman, and also studied astronomy, geometry, and Latin. From Wordnik.com. [Discoverers and Explorers] Reference
With his permission, you might make a copy of them, as you are a skilful penman. From Wordnik.com. [Thais] Reference
Moreover, as a business proposition, one cannot afford to become a slovenly penman. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
He had been a good penman at school, so that he had no difficulty in writing his letter. From Wordnik.com. [The Rival Crusoes] Reference
He was an accomplished penman and an expert in arithmetic and the elementary mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [History of New Brunswick] Reference
Rudely written on the paper, for Abner was by no means a skillful penman, were these words. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Himself] Reference
To write "laff," the pen has to make the SAME NUMBER of strokes -- no labor is saved to the penman. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference
He had received a good education, was well skilled in the learned languages, and was an excellent penman. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
Suppose yourself, brother penman, decorated with this ribbon, and looking in the glass, would you not laugh?. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
At the time we are now describing he had re-entered Parliament, and was still a brilliant penman on the side of the Whigs. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)] Reference
He was, he admitted even to himself, no great penman, and his epistolary style tended, perhaps, more to the forcible than to the finished. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
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