chirography

• “The chirography was the same as that upon the note of the racing-car episode.”

  The Voice on the Wire

• “The chirography is a beautiful and curious specimen.”

  Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians

• “The chirography was the fashionable "long English;" the diction was good, and the orthography faultless.”

  The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

• “Ong succeeds in creating an accessible outline of the major transitions in human thought from orality to chirography (manuscripts), from chirography to typography (with the widespread use of the printing press), and the resurgence of some aspects of orality in modern electronic communication (both personal and mass-market).”

  Orality and Literacy « Books « Literacy News

• “Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen.”

  Les Miserables

• “It was written in the most charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days.”

  Les Miserables

• “Would ye ken a young stepschuler of psychical chirography, the name of Keven, or (let outers pray) Evan Vaughan, of his Posthorn in the High Street, that was shooing a Guiney gagag, Poulepinter, that found the dogumen number one, I would suggest, an illegible downfumbed by an unelgible? —”

  Finnegans Wake

• “When first we had seen it we had gazed upon a sea of radiance pierced with lanced forests, swept with gigantic gonfalons of flame; we had seen it emptied of its fiery mists — a vast slate covered with the chirography of a mathematical god; we had seen it filled with the symboling of the Metal Hordes and dominated by the colossal integrate hieroglyph of the living City; we had seen it as”

  The Metal Monster

• “She has a beautiful white hand, but her handwriting is infamous; she writes fast and her chirography is of the door-plate order — her letters are immense.”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “The chirography was labored, heavy and trembling; it betrayed the stiff hand of a man more accustomed to guiding the plough than the pen.”

  The Honor of the Name

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