ready-reckoner

Tommy was a tailor by trade, and made use of a ready-reckoner to assist him in making up his accounts, and his familiarity with that useful book was shown when reading the second verse of the forty-fifth Psalm, which Tommy invariably read: "My tongue is the pen of a _ready-reckoner_," to the immense delight of the youthful members of the congregation.

The Parish Clerk 1892

Oswald Danes is starting to look like less of a character than a ready-reckoner by which RTD can juxtapose any socially repellent strain of humanity and signpost HOW EVIL DOES THIS PERSON LOOK COMPARED TO A PAEDOPHILE MURDERER?

Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode four 2011

“To wit: the power of always being master of himself; of profiting more or less, under all circumstances, by every event, however fortuitous; in short, of having within himself a cold and disinterested other self, who looks on as a spectator at all the changes of life, noting our passions and our sentiments, and whispering to us in every case the judgment of a sort of moral ready-reckoner.”

Another Study of a Woman 2007

“To wit: the power of always being master of himself; of profiting more or less, under all circumstances, by every event, however fortuitous; in short, of having within himself a cold and disinterested other self, who looks on as a spectator at all the changes of life, noting our passions and our sentiments, and whispering to us in every case the judgment of a sort of moral ready-reckoner.”

Another Study of a Woman 2007

Apparatus_, and in attempting to discover how on earth to use it, whether as a game, or a puzzle, or a ready-reckoner, the Baron's hair is turning from grey to white.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 12, 1890 Various

When we are dealing with men, our ready-reckoner rules do not work out correctly.

Friendship Hugh Black

Why work out sums in your head when you can buy a ready-reckoner?

Try Anything Twice 1938

We are to judge of every individual case as it arises, apparently without any social summary or moral ready-reckoner at all.

George Bernard Shaw 1905

Now take the number and follow it through the history of religions by means of some theological ready-reckoner, such as a cheap dictionary by Migne.

Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

We have checked that statement, with the aid of a ready-reckoner and a Latin dictionary, and we find it substantially correct.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 Various 1898