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writing-machine

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A typewriter.

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Examples

  • That is to say, he was a writing-machine of which Sir Roger made use to do certain work which could not well be adjusted without some contrivance.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • I am trying to get the hang of this new-fangled writing-machine, but am not making a shining success of it.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • "The ministers are to govern alone, and I am to have only the right of being a sort of writing-machine to sign their decrees."

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • It was in 1866 that he began to experiment with a writing-machine, and his first one, which was patented two years later, was as big as a sewing-machine.

    American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

  • I am trying to get the hang of this new-fangled writing-machine, but am not making a shining success of it.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • I am trying to get the hang of this new-fangled writing-machine, but am not making a shining success of it.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • A secretary should be a mere writing-machine, and I do not believe an elderly person could be that.

    The House of Martha Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • That is to say, he was a writing-machine of which Sir Roger made use to do certain work which could not well be adjusted without some contrivance.

    Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1848

  • "Is that meant for a reproach?" said Father d'Aigrigny, who began to think that Rodin was something more than a mere writing-machine.

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • Father d'Aigrigny shrugged his shoulders, and reproached himself for having asked advice of this writing-machine, that served him for

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

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