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He painstakingly transcribes the text -- the text is his mark-making -- into the image of the pampered pooches.

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  1. noun The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.
  2. noun The words of a speech appearing in print.
  3. noun Words, as of a libretto, that are set to music in a composition.

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  • Presently, opening the Koran, he read The doom of God cometh to pass This text was the answer to his prayer for guidance He seated himself by the window, and gazed out into the darkness. —  Sacrifice
  • The Temple Tribute.--That the tribute money referred to in the text was a Jewish contribution to the temple and not a tax levied by the Roman government, is apparent from the specification of the "didrachma," which in the authorized version is translated "tribute." —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
  • III Ric'us Tailour NOTE D. page 23 To the account given in the text is added "and London lost theire fraunchise NOTE E. page 28 And there were forjuged, drawen and hanged, iij Englisshe christen men, and ij^{c} iiij^{xx} and xiij Englisshe Jues NOTE F. page 37 Also the same yere the kyng had his counseile there with erlis, barons, and other of his counseile; and the kyng toke of the lay people" &c NOTE G. page 43 Nicholl Faryndon. —  A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
  • And yet his text was the Psalm which tells of the vine brought from Egypt to be planted in the land, but now wasted and broken down; and the preacher throughout refused even to suggest to the shrinking multitude any lower hope than the vouchsafed shining again of the Divine countenance. —  John Knox
  • Its one contribution to the establishment of the text is at ix 103, where it reads quamquam ... sit instead of the more usual quamquam ... est found in the other manuscripts. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
 

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  1. Middle English texte, from Old French, from Late Latin textus, written account, from Latin, structure, context, body of a passage, from past participle of texere, to weave, fabricate; see teks- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English text, texte, tixte, tyxt, from Old French (and F.) texte = Provencal texte, test = Spanish Portuguese texto = Italian testo, from Latin textus, a fabric, texture, structure, composition, context, text (cf. textum, a fabric, also the style of an author, neuter of textus, past participle), from texere, past participle textus, weave, = Sanskrittaksh, cut, prepare, form (see tectonic).
  2. from text, n.
 

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