Memoranda

Examples

• It contained papers, love-letters many years old--all sorts of small trinkets and woman's memoranda. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I will go into the library and write you some memoranda from my uncle's letter, if you will open the shutters for me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I had not done with it yet; and other memoranda were destined to be set down in characters of tint indelible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then turning to Will, she said, I have some memoranda to write for the housekeeper. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• All the bills and accounts I owed I jabbed on one hook; and memoranda of all owed to myself I put on the other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He now drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two memoranda. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• My credentials, entries, and memoranda, are all comprehended in the one line, 'Recalled to Life;' which may mean anything. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Just exactly as you please, sir, answered the general once more, as he made some memoranda on the back of his receipt book. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He made neither notes nor memoranda, but the examination required all the day, which happened to be a Saturday. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their books and memoranda, even their letters, were potsherds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Astor