Sentence examples for penman from inspiring English sources

Davies settled in Oxford and became known as the best penman of his day.

Above all a consummate penman, Koch made the written word the basis of his designs in any medium, whether tapestry or woodcut.

Mespoulets, besides being kind, was a talented penman.

BOOKS lead about "The Higher Jazz University of Iowa Pressss; $17.95), an unfinished novel by Edmund Wilson... His fiction is lumpy, as it were, with transcribed journal entries where an airier penman would have been making things up.

Only the occasional involuntary straightening of a "d" shows that the penman is forcing himself to write with his right hand, because that is what Midwestern teachers required of southpaw schoolboys in the mid-nineteen-twenties.

The boyhood home (1740) of John Dickinson, "penman of the Revolution," is preserved.

Lines of wild-hog tracks made penman-style flourishes across the field, with intervals of rooting in between.

They took hourly surface-airways observations of temperature, wind speed, and humidity, estimated radiation from cloud cover, and performed complex calculations using the Penman-Monteith formula to factor in soil-heat flux, latent heat of vaporization, stomatal resistance, and the von Kármán constant.

From 1979 to 1982, during the postpunk era, the British weekly music magazines reached a peak of readership, influence, and creativity, thanks to the ultraopinionated exuberance and intelligence of writers such as Ian Penman, Paul Morley, and Barney Hoskyns.

Take Dave Penman, general-secretary of the FDA union, which represents 18,000 of the UK's most senior civil servants.

The bassist Matt Penman and the drummer Greg Hutchinson are his interactive rhythm team.