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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See case, 6.

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Examples

  • This is very much an issue with the Gaspe chronology, which has negligible correlation with gridcell temperatures, but is a type-case of a Jacoby-Mann “teleconnection”.

    Wilson, Pisaric and Gaspé « Climate Audit 2007

  • Job is the type-case of the innocent sufferer overwhelmed by unmerited misfortune.

    SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

  • We pulled the type-case into the store, close to the stove.

    Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

  • A cow got into the office one night, upset a type-case, and ate up two composition rollers.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

  • A cow got into the office one night, upset a type-case, and ate up two composition rollers.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Its prodigious type-case of more than forty-two thousand characters contains, therefore, only a series of pictures, direct and symbolic, all highly conventionalized, but recognizable in their earlier forms.

    The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898

  • From the window near which his type-case stood he saw the squirrels scampering over trees and roofs, heard the birds singing in the branches, caught dissolving views of Br'er Fox flitting across the garden path, and breathed in beauty and romance to be exhaled later for the enchantment of a world of readers.

    Literary Hearthstones of Dixie La Salle Corbell Pickett 1889

  • The stout man at the type-case, failing to respond, and the other being apparently too surprised to speak, Frances went to the blackamoor and, standing beside the press, was about to repeat her inquiry.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • The stout man at the type-case was the first to see her, and when he turned, she asked, trembling: --

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • The type-case, press, and a small table, on which lay a bundle of white paper, all stood huddled together in the centre of the room, occupying a space of perhaps eight feet square.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

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