copying-press

Well, I sha'nt get a copying-press anyhow, I'll practice self-denial, and get a five-cent. diary instead.

Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

Shut the book, put it back into the copying-press, give it a hard squeeze by means of the lever or screw, leave it in from half a minute to a minute, and the whole thing is done; an exact copy of the letter will be left in your letter-book.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. Various

And going into the other room, Frank returned in a moment with an open letter, still wet from the copying-press.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

He was the first to make a copying-press; he also contrived a flexible iron pipe with ball and socket joints, to adapt it to the irregular riverbed, for carrying water across the Clyde.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

If you write few they may be copied by hand into a book kept for the purpose, but if many the use of a copying-press saves a great deal of monotonous labour, and secures absolute accuracy besides.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. Various

-- In fact, what I really want is a copying-press, for I can't remember what I have told you in answer to your letters and what I have not, and I notice the same questions occur in a good many of them.

Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

Nelly cried, "That's so; they would"; while Mrs. Arty, not knowing what a copying-press was, appeared highly commendatory, and said nothing at all.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

Nelly cried, "That's so; they would"; while Mrs. Arty, not knowing what a copying-press was, appeared highly commendatory, and said nothing at all.

Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

Desks, tables, a copying-press and a typewriter were all its gear; it was a place as avidly specialized for its purpose as an iron foundry, but now, for the moment, it was redeemed from its everyday barrenness by the two figures upon the floor near the entrance.

Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

At the age of fourteen he sat in a grimy room with an old man on one side of him, a copying-press on the other, and a law-stationer's almanac in front, and he earned half

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899