"Text-hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his spectacles. 'A vile greasy scrawl, indeed; and the letters are uncial or semi-uncial, as somebody calls your large text hand, and in size and perpendicularity resemble the ribs of a roasted pig; I can ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... turned the papers over and over, as if he had been an idiot, incapable of comprehending their contents. The Queen's impatience began to become visible. "You are a scholar, sir," she said, "and of some note, as I have heard; yet you seem wondrous slow in reading text hand. How say you, are ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott |
