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... green motor cars carry "Pawnbrokers' Lists" to every police station to be distributed by hand. The Police Gazette goes out twice a week to the whole police forces of ...

— Scotland Yard - The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police • George Dilnot

... us go to old Kate Merrill's. They say she can read the future as we do the past, by hand, tea-cups, or cards. Come, ...

— Small Means and Great Ends • Edited by Mrs. M. H. Adams

... correctness of design and detail, in which all the knowledge one has collected of period furniture will be called upon; and in painted furniture the color of the background and the charm and execution of the design must be taken into account, whether it is done by hand or stenciled. Nearly all kinds of woods are used, the difference in cost being caused by the grade and amount of labor needed, the kind of wood chosen and its abundance and the fineness of grain and the seasoning. Mahogany costs more than stained birch, ...

— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop

... a copy should be kept. 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 ...

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

... hour passed, and he was still nerving himself for the coming interview, when a tap came at the door, and a note, left by hand, was brought in to him. He glanced at the address, and tore open the envelope with trembling hand. It contained these few words, ...

— The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

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