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Example sentences for "penmanship"

Lexicographically close words:
penitents; penitus; penknife; penknives; penman; penmen; pennance; pennant; pennants; penne
  1. The penmanship should be neat and legible.

  2. Care at the beginning will form a habit of neatness, and keep the penmanship up to a high standard.

  3. My writing-desk is to me a place of punishment; and, as my penmanship sufficiently testifies.

  4. One or two other juniors and myself sedulously practised imitating the penmanship of those senior clerks who wrote fine or singular hands.

  5. The Prince of Beaux was fastidious in his penmanship as in everything else.

  6. Ellsworth, Teacher of Penmanship in the Public Schools of New York City, etc.

  7. The paper was the white ruled variety, to be found in country stores, but the penmanship was clear and business-like.

  8. Marian's distinctive penmanship stared him in the face.

  9. They were versed in the intricacies of law, as well as ritual, and skilled in penmanship and the Latin tongue.

  10. A knowledge of penmanship and arithmetic is all that is required of a man of business, but a learned man is expected to read Chinese.

  11. My father was to pay a school-tax and I to attend a new school, where instruction was not in penmanship alone but extended over various subjects.

  12. Felix always had written her name in full, saying that it was prettier than the one that she had given herself in baby-days; the penmanship appeared like a child's imitation of his bold strokes.

  13. She read it again: the penmanship was straggling and ugly.

  14. Gus your penmanship is perfect; when I am rich, you shall copy my books.

  15. By the exercise of economy the two friends would be able to live in modest comfort for a considerable time, and Leofric, at least, hoped before long to earn money by his penmanship and talent in illuminating parchments.

  16. Reinhart was an artist of directness and force, in a style based upon modern French and German examples; while of greater originality as a whole, though derivative in detail, is the fanciful penmanship of Alfred Brennan.

  17. By the majority of these artists the drawing for the engraver seems to have been done with the pen; and the tendency to penmanship was still more accentuated when from Spain came the influence of M.

  18. Ornamental penmanship is good, but it will not take the cuss off if you don't know how to spell.

  19. Neat and beautiful penmanship is very desirable in business correspondence, but it is most important that you should not spell God with a little g or codfish with a k.

  20. Penmanship is a test for the hand, but History is a study touching the memory more than the doing faculty.

  21. Penmanship and Spelling teach us properly to make the signs which represent speech.

  22. From the same cause, the character of the penmanship also passes through a corresponding change, but more gradually and indistinctly.

  23. His interest in the art of penmanship drew his attention to these as ornamental and ingenious.

  24. His instruction at Hobby's school was supplemented by lessons in reading, penmanship and arithmetic by his father, who was much better qualified than Hobby to teach the young.

  25. I thought as much," muttered the stockbroker, as he recognised traces of his brother's sprawling penmanship upon the pad.

  26. If the ink manufactured in the present century is of no more durable nature than that abominable fluid employed in the penmanship of a hundred years ago, I profoundly pity the generations that are to come after us.

  27. When penmanship was the rage and writing became epidemic the scholars developed the villainous habit of scribbling always and everywhere.

  28. I have felt depressed by my consciousness of the unworthiness of the response, that my life has made, to such an excellent instructor in penmanship and spelling.

  29. Apparently his warning had fallen on deaf ears and Rochester was indulging in another periodic spree, for so Kent concluded, recalling the unsteady penmanship of the note handed to him by the new clerk, John Sylvester.

  30. A memorandum pad, bearing a message in Sylvester's precise penmanship attracted his wandering attention and he picked it up.

  31. Was not I approved of the Father, and taught many things by him, including those arts of reading and penmanship which many in my condition of life never attain unto?

  32. With swift fingers she transcribed some characters on a fragment of parchment, and Cuthbert marvelled at the skill in penmanship the old woman displayed when she gave the paper into his hands.

  33. After he had signed, he smiled at his irregular penmanship and said, "You see my hand trembles, but my heart doesn't!

  34. He wrote an excellent hand, and some productions in his superior penmanship have been kept to this day, showing remarkable neatness and accuracy.

  35. This trained also in penmanship and spelling.

  36. Penmanship was made a great deal of while orthography was not, the results of which are shown by the writing and spelling of the diaries and other writings of that period that remain.

  37. The penmanship was, I am afraid, clumsy, and the spelling here and there, irregular.

  38. It was, however, on the whole, better spelled and expressed than the penmanship would have led one to expect.

  39. They were in girlish penmanship and bore no signature, but stung him to the quick.

  40. Every winter he taught the arts of song and penmanship in the four districts from Jericho to Cedar Hill.

  41. In penmanship we want to know how many children there are who write quality eight, or nine, or ten, or sixteen, or seventeen, as the case may be.

  42. Was the train ill-laid then, that this woman should be able to sit quite still, content to fix a puzzled look upon the wicked penmanship of fifty years ago?

  43. And Gwen sat there puzzling, turning the word this way and that, looking all the lovelier for the ripple of amusement on her face at the absurd penmanship of the neophyte.

  44. The letter floated slowly from his grasp and fell noiselessly upon the carpet, the distinct careful penmanship plainly visible in the candlelight.

  45. The note-paper was easily explained in the same way; he could himself prove that the penmanship was Miss Hildreth's, though slightly disguised.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penmanship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.