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Copybook

noun
1.
A book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship.






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"Copybook" Quotes from Famous Books



... established itself in him, influencing all he did—that faithful labour, backed by steady thinking, must reach ten thousand wavering characters, merge with awakening tendencies in them, and slip thence into definite daily action. Action was thought materialised. He helped the world. A copybook maxim thus became a weapon of tempered steel. His Scheme was bigger than any hospital for disabled bodies. It would still be cumulative when bodies and bricks were dust upon the wind. It must increase by geometrical progression through ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... midst of these repulsing discords Gard was surprised, on returning to his room a night or two later, to find by his table a new red and gold copy of Heine's verse inclosing a sprig of forget-me-not. On the fly leaf was inscribed in a youthful, copybook hand: ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry



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