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"Lettering" Quotes from Famous Books

... here! The Board of Editors is going to meet in the lecture room immediately to open the boxes. Four big beautiful boxes full of splendid great books all in green with gilt lettering. Hurry! Hurry quick yourself! You're head literary editor. It's really your book—the ideas, editorials, verses, farce, everything! The sale opens at five. Everybody's crazy to see the new senior Annual. ...

— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... dignified and even metres used by the early English writers. Some are graceful and smooth, however, and are canorous though never sonorous. They are pleasing to read with their quaint old spelling and lettering. ...

— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle

... Bah! He sat down to meditate on Judas and his sins. It seemed that life was just about as disappointing as it could be! His rough young hand leaned hard against the grimy old stone till the half worn lettering hurt his flesh and he shifted his position and lifted his hand. There on the palm were the quaint old letters, imprinted in the flesh, "Blessed are the dead— " Gosh yes! Weren't they? Judas had been right after all. "Aw Gee!" ...

— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill

... by which we can put in by hand, with little separate bobbins, as we go along, any cross-stitch design, lettering, monograms, figures and ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... Appearances; A Consideration on our Ways of lettering Books. Few lovers of old books and good binding will begrudge half a florin for this quaint opuscule.—Indications of Instinct, by T. Lindley Kemp, the new number of the Traveller's Library, is an interesting supplement ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854 • Various

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