The chirography is a beautiful and curious specimen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians] Reference

The chirography was the fashionable "long English;" the diction was good, and the orthography faultless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference

Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

Their chirography is alike, it is true, but it is not the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

She picked up the wrinkled little sheet of sadly irregular chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool There Was] Reference

Robert, too, knew the bold, graceful chirography, and watched her hungrily as she read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sara, a Princess] Reference

It was not that there was a familiar phrase in the upright chirography of the old hermit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

Among these, the one with the cramped, precise chirography was thought to come from an old maid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"They contain," he added, "some specimens of the witness's chirography of about the same date as the will.".    From Wordnik.com.  [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference

People who profess to read character in chirography would decipher but little from these cramped, quiet lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

We have chosen the word "begging" for fac-simile not merely because of the marked character of its chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

Elegant chirography, and a clear epistolary style, are accomplishments which every educated female should possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference

For a long while Dennis sat with the letter in his hand, gazing, with unseeing eyes, upon its eccentric chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

Yet carrying this journey through the labyrinth of chirography to that end seemed a profligate expenditure of his time.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Presence of the Enemy]

Then, with sparkling eyes, she wrote, in a prim hand, trying to match the chirography of the remote Jonathan Croyden, Gent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

We can picture to ourselves Diemudis in her conventual dress, seated in the scriptorium, with her materials for chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

The writing looked familiar, too, although at that time he could not seem to recall the person whose chirography it resembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference

Professor Phelps, by the way, had an exquisite chirography, which none of his children, to his evident disappointment, inherited.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

The chirography of Mr. Choate was equal to any Chinese puzzle; it was even more difficult to decipher than that of Horace Greeley.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference

I shall also cable for Graham, the expert on chirography and on all kinds of forgeries, and we will have his decision upon that will.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference

Byron's paraphrase near the dungeons where she and her lover were slain, or gazes with mingled curiosity and love on the chirography of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

Puzzled and surprised he began to read the strange chirography, and as he read his face darkened and he drew his brows in a heavy frown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Mainwaring on that last morning of his life, and it was but the work of an hour or two to again transcribe them in his clear chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference

"Your chirography is not equal to your organ-playing," continued the minister, smiling, as he saw the childlike, uneven signature of Jonas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference

An expert at chirography would doubtless have distinguished in the lines traces of a violent temperament, of a character stern and unsocial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master of the World] Reference

Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

This fragment was all that then existed, and as I stumbled through my rather blind chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without a Home] Reference

"There's a man's hand for you," cried Belle exultantly as she exhibited Roger's bold chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without a Home] Reference

The student broke its well-known seal, and read, in a delicate chirography, the following words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Against this item appeared a cross in my chirography, and I saw at a glance that this was my long-lost Hillier!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference

The general verdict among the people who have read the writing of both men is that Frohman took the palm for illegible chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference

The chirography was labored, heavy and trembling; it betrayed the stiff hand of a man more accustomed to guiding the plough than the pen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honor of the Name] Reference

I had no doubts about who was the writer; in fact, rude as was the chirography -- from the materials used -- I easily identified the hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

More attention was paid to a correct and handsome chirography, at that time, the boyhood of Washington, Jefferson, Sherman and Putnam, than at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Log-book of Timothy Boardman Kept On Board The Privateer Oliver Cromwell, During A Cruise From New London, Ct., to Charleston, S. C., And Return, In 1778; Also, A Biographical Sketch of The Author.] Reference

Sybil, who gloried in all her husband's accomplishments, from the greatest to the least, admired very much his skill in ornamental chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel As The Grave] Reference

The letter, which I afterwards saw, was a most curious thing, both as to composition and spelling and chirography, for his lordship was no scholar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart's Highway] Reference