chirography

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Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not its content, but its chirography: stubborn, insecure, self-centered, secretive, ungenerous and frigid.

From Time Magazine Archive

My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

There were numerous letters in it, some being addressed in a woman's delicate handwriting and others in a bold, clear, masculine chirography.

From The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

It is an interest of a peculiarly pleasant nature, if the epistle be perfumed, the envelope of limited dimensions, crested, cream-laid, and endorsed by a chirography of the “angular” type.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne