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Caligraphy

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Ca`lig´ra`phy
n.1.See Caligraphy.
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These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
If the caligraphy be Poe's, it is different in all essential respects from all the many specimens known to us, and strongly resembles that of the writer of the heading and dating of the manuscript, both of which the contributor of the poem acknowledges to have been recently added.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Industrious, and possessed of a handwriting purely English, his caligraphy is, it must be confessed, even worse than my own.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
 
 
 
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