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Definition of Handwrites
1. handwrite [v] - See also: handwrite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handwrites
Literary usage of Handwrites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from Wodrow's Biographical Collections: Divines of the North-east by Robert Wodrow (1890)
"... to testify the same by their handwrites, the which also they did, in my
presence, after we had all heard the same distinctly read, day, moneth, year, ..."
2. The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the by John Hill Burton (1901)
"... na man durst have said it was evil done, seeing the handwrites [signatures to
the band], and acknowledging the queen's mind thereto. ..."
3. Hackoff.com: An Historic Murder Mystery Set in the Internet Bubble and Rubble by Tom Evslin (2006)
"Reluctantly Donna follows Mark out to reception where he laboriously handwrites
a receipt which Donna has the receptionist copy. ..."
4. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"I can read some handwrites, and some I can't. Question. You never looked at it ?
Answer. No, sir. Answer. No, sir. Question. Never got anybody to read it to ..."
5. Histoire de Marie Stuart by Jules Gauthier (1875)
"Walsingham, en possession de la réponse de Marie, jugea (1) Melvil dit : « 80
that be tymes letters were forgit, and other men's handwrites conterfeit ..."
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