round-hand

• “Get down the round-hand scrawls of your son who has half broken your heart with selfish undutifulness since; or a parcel of your own, breathing endless ardour and love eternal, which were sent back by your mistress when she married the Nabob — your mistress for whom you now care no more than for Queen Elizabeth.”

  Vanity Fair

• “And, moving at forty miles an hour along the road to Billingshurst, he recalled being fetched by old Gradman at six miles an hour from Paddington Station to Park Lane in a growler with wet straw on the floor — over sixty years ago — when old Gradman himself was only a boy of twenty, trying to grow side-whiskers and writing round-hand all day.”

  Swan Song

• “Lake, so to speak, stood at his wicket, and that accomplished bowler, Fortune, ball in hand, at the other end; will it be swift round-hand, or a slow twister, or a shooter, or a lob?”

  Wylder's Hand

• “Perhaps he would like better than anything to show you the last photograph of his wife, or to read to you the great, round-hand letter of his ten-year-old which he has got to-day.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864

• “The others toiled painfully on at their round-hand.”

  The Pothunters

• “Get down the round-hand scrawls of your son who has half broken your heart with selfish undutifulness since; or a parcel of your own, breathing endless ardour and love eternal, which were sent back by your mistress when she married the Nabob—your mistress for whom you now care no more than for Queen Elizabeth.”

  XIX. Miss Crawley at Nurse

• “Here he kept all the documents relating to him ever since he had been a boy: here were his prize copy-books and drawing-books, all bearing George’s hand, and that of the master: here were his first letters in large in large round-hand sending his love to papa and mamma, and conveying his petitions for a cake.”

  XXIV. In Which Mr. Osborne Takes down the Family Bible

• “His type is nearly always conspicuous as being a simplified Gothic round-hand”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “It was a famous and familiar document with which I had been served, or, rather, with a fair copy of it, in the Black Colonel's best round-hand; but its use by him to convey his sentiments and intentions to me was quaintly original.”

  The Black Colonel

• “Monsieur Beaucourt said a brief word or two, and a few moments later a tabulated list, written in round-hand, lay before him.”

  The End of Her Honeymoon

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