Sentence examples for copybooks from inspiring English sources

Spencerian instruction manuals and copybooks (i.e., books of examples to copy) were produced in prodigious numbers beginning in 1848, and they were used by schools nationwide for writing instruction.

Copperplate script, formally English round hand, also called anglaise, in calligraphy, dominant style among 18th-century writing masters, whose copybooks were splendidly printed from models engraved on copper.

The growing literacy of the period, promoted by the rise of commerce throughout Europe, encouraged the teaching of writing to women, who were often involved in running their spouse's business, and several late 16th-century printed copybooks contain examples for women to copy.

Round hand script, in calligraphy, the dominant style among 18th-century English writing masters, whose copybooks were splendidly printed from models engraved on metal.

One of the first English copybooks to show this new style is The New A-La-Mode Secretarie (c. 1680) by John Ayres; he identifies "bastard Italians" as "round-hands," and his alphabets are nearly exact copies of Barbedor's italienne bastarde.

His Goldsmith's Gems of Penmanship (1844) presents only examples written with metal pens, and it includes flourishes that evoke those in late-17th-century English copybooks.

She has benefited from two visits from David Cameron already, although the Tory leader blotted his copybook with his German accent during one trip.

Vaughan promptly blotted his copybook by getting sent off for his celebration and moments later City's Jamar Loza popped up with an equaliser to secure a 2-2 draw.

The harsh and paranoid rhetoric hurled from Beijing this week at Tibetans and their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, is torn straight from the copybook that Lenin used to subjugate Turkestan.

Ironically, the president, who campaigned on a firm repudiation of Argentina's former military dictatorship, now seems to be taking a page from the generals' own copybook: the junta launched the 1982 war to boost its sagging popularity and remain in power.But although this may help Mr Kirchner at the polls, it will not help him get the Falklands.

On November 1st, after lobbying from the telescope's defenders (particularly the American Astronomical Society), the Senate passed a bill that restored the telescope's funding.In this section Old crocs Throwing money into space The belly of the beast Asteroid 2005-YU55 A few blots in the copybook ReprintsBut it is not just politicians that are restive.