Manuscripts

Examples

• The residue and remainder of all my books, manuscripts, and papers, I do give to my grandson William Temple Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He collected vast numbers of manuscripts, had strange animals brought from distant land s to Alexandria, and otherwise promoted scientific research. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Arabic paper manuscripts from the ninth century onward still exist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nothing will be added, altered or removed, in her manuscript, or in any of the other manuscripts which pass through my hands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was shown into the library, where often a score of monks were busied in making copies of old manuscripts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I pointed to the two manuscripts, lying on the table between us. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Half-finished boats and bits of string lay among the manuscripts. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But Jo got out her desk and began to overhaul her half-finished manuscripts. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Letters, manuscripts, books, and bundles can be passed in there, and as each nation has a key, it will be uncommonly nice, I fancy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Among them are manuscripts from the archives of nearly two thousand families, monasteries and convents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is always a pleasure to examine thy manuscripts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He carried the Ars Moriendi there, and found the Abbot in the library, looking over the manuscripts of several monks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These extant manuscripts date from the seventh century onward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Manuscripts as early as the twelfth century display initial letters that may have been printed from wooden stamps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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