verso
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“Sobekmose,” a masterwork containing about 100 spells, is unusual, in part, because it’s inscribed recto and verso.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Some of his notes are literally scrawled on the back—the verso in artistic terms—of the art, while others were clearly composed and submitted when the pieces were given over to the Navy.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
Exterior becomes interior — or verso becomes recto — in Leedham’s wittily jumbled tableaux.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
The lawsuit claimed that agreements signed by the jewelers contained illegible contract text in verso and therefore “cannot be binding.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
On the verso was an illustration of a centaur colt—Apple, I was sure—nuzzling a young man—Char.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Behind the talk of versos and rectos is the awareness that big money is moving into the market.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ve been looking for it everywhere, and I could really use some versos sencillos right now.”
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
These are surely the versos of an attorney’s clerk ‘penning a stanza when he should engross’.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
The plates are arranged as follows, by leaves, the versos being blank: 1.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
The Moros had in it some pieces13 with ladles, and sixteen or seventeen versos and other firearms.
