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Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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A code brand code brand code brand code brand code brand code brand code brand new primary page was required, as good as countless substitutions as good as additions in a second as good as third pages, nonetheless it is unfit to contend how many changes were finished in Mar as good as how many currente calamo, in January.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Accordingly his letter to Sir Nicholas was written, currente calamo, with very little trouble.
Barchester Towers 2004
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But the man who writes currente calamo, who works with a rapidity which will not admit of accuracy, may be as true, and in one sense as trustworthy, as he who bases every word upon a rock of facts.
An Autobiography 2004
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They are forced to write _currente calamo_ -- sometimes on the heads of drums, and not unfrequently are such epistles as full of sound and fury and as empty as the things on which they are written.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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We know that when men write_ currente calamo, _words and phrases are apt to escape, the full application of which is not observed, until, as Charles Lamb said,
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I spend all the mornings alone in the library writing -- _calamo currente_, like one of the heroines of the author of 'Ohone' -- the most admirable romances and poems of the age.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The majority of his books convey the idea of being written _currente calamo_, and with little trouble to himself; and these have a lightness and brilliancy peculiar to their lively author, which cannot fail to recommend them to all classes of readers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Probably the particular charm of the book arises from its having been written _currente calamo_.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Pen-y-gwryd, Tom Hughes, Tom Taylor, and he left alternate quatrains of doggerel to celebrate their stay, written _currente calamo_, as the spirit prompted them.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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