Prints

Examples

• The plan of identifying people by their finger-prints, although at first used only on criminals, is now put to many other uses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been eager for, and after he had secured them he went away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They have a great machine which prints such things by thousands every hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• By working hard Gutenberg had the Abbot’s jewels finished two days later, and he took them with several of his prints to the Cathedral. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Reproductions were obtained in the same way, positive prints being observed through a magnifying glass. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It takes some time to compare finger prints, thought D'Arnot, turning to look at the police officer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I have already learned all that is in the public prints, nothing more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On our way upstairs, I called her attention to the sudden disappearance of Mrs. Crupp's pitfalls, and also to the prints of recent footsteps. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Very few people have a grip like Gabriel--the prints of his monstrous fingers, two inches deep, are to be seen in that rock to-day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• From the few chairs, the few books, the common prints, and the bed, she glanced to the two women, and to Stephen. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the place on it where Mahomet stood, he left his foot-prints in the solid stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Great opposition was made to this measure, not only in the house, but in the public prints. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He always prints, I know, 'cos he learnt writin' from the large bills in the booking-offices. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I want to see how the prints go, and I must be off soon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The bare walls had been coloured green, evidently by an unskilled hand, and were poorly decorated with a few prints. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These plates made up of both line work and halftones are known as combination plates or double-prints, depending upon the way they are produced. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fox Talbot makes Photo Prints from Negatives. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Photo-engraving is a process by means of which photographs may be used in forming plates from which prints in ink can be taken. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He ushered her into a slip of a hall hung with old prints. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• When thou dost go take some of thy prints with thee, begged Anna, and see what the Father has to say about them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Could the finger prints of an ape be detected from those of a man? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Ridicule was heaped upon him in the public prints, and mathematics were called into service by learned men to settle the point forever that he was attempting the utterly impossible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those who bought the prints had meant to buy jewels and mirrors, and if they had done so I should have made a bigger profit. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Such carelessly made prints are not fast to washing or light, and soon fade. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Admire his collection of coins, prints, and water-colour drawings, and you will win his heart. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is then a simple matter for the police to collect such marks for comparison with the finger-prints of anyone to whom suspicion may be directed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Finger-prints are made, immediately upon enlistment, of each separate finger and thumb of both hands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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