chirographical

"The Master," as he was known to his little flock, sat alone one night in the schoolhouse, with some open copybooks before him, carefully making those bold and full characters which are supposed to combine the extremes of chirographical and moral excellence, and had got as far as

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869

How this might have struck a chirographical expert he did not know.

Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

He believed the man was capable of forgery; indeed, he suddenly remembered that in the old days his son had spoken innocently, but admiringly, of Van Loo's wonderful chirographical powers and his faculty of imitating the writings of others, and how he had even offered to teach him.

The Three Partners Bret Harte 1869

At the commencement of the lectures he purchases a blank-book, for the ostensible purpose of taking notes of the lectures; but unwittingly his fingers, instead of tracing the chirographical characters, are engaged in caricaturing the professor, who is endeavouring to beat into his and a few hundred kindred heads, the difference between a dirty Israelite and the 'nasty moses of an artery.

Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858

In order to reconcile the facts with this hypothesis, Navarrete is compelled to reject, as a chirographical blunder,

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

-- deemed advisable, with no intercourse, personal or chirographical with her family, the

The White Morning Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

"The master," as he was known to his little flock, sat alone one night in the schoolhouse, with some open copybooks before him, carefully making those bold and full characters which are supposed to combine the extremes of chirographical and moral excellence, and had got as far as "Riches are deceitful," and was elaborating the noun with an insincerity of flourish that was quite in the spirit of his text, when he heard a gentle tapping.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869