"Parchment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... woman, bent by age, with face resembling an ill-fitting parchment mask placed upon a skull, ...
— The Fifth of November - A Romance of the Stuarts • Charles S. Bentley
... out their speeches, Poets their verses recited, Statesmen promulgated edicts, Sages their maxims indited. Parchment, my lads, was the article All used to write on together; Thus the Republic of Letters ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille
... lapidary, a cordwainer—namely, a shoemaker; a lindraper, for they had not yet added the syllable which makes it linen; a lorimer, who dealt in bits and bridles; a pouchmonger, who sold bags and pockets; a parchment-maker; a treaclemonger, a spicer, a chandler, and a pepperer, all four the representatives of our modern grocer; an apothecary; a scrivener, who wrote for the numerous persons who could not write; a fuller, who cleaned clothes; a tapiser, who sold tapestry, universally used for ...
— The White Lady of Hazelwood - A Tale of the Fourteenth Century • Emily Sarah Holt
... of how a bit of old parchment, concealed in a figurehead from a sunken vessel, comes into the possession of a pretty girl and an army man during regatta week in the Isle of Wight. This is the message and it enfolds a mystery, the development of which the reader will follow with ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... behind them comes a man-at-arms who closes the door and stands against the wall beside it. MARK holds a parchment in his hand, and, without noticing the barons, walks agitatedly to the front of the stage. DENOVALIN goes behind the table and places himself between it and ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
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