27 Words to use with copies

Perhaps you know them, too; they are to be found in the copy-books.

The booksellers, justly sensible of the great additional value of the copy-right, presented him with another hundred pounds, over and above two hundred, for which his agreement was to furnish such prefaces as he thought fit.

And his copy money and his taylor's bill were too little proportioned to one another.

Proofreading and copy-preparation.

free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland^; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.

You see, he's a real copy cat.

Conway had finished his story quite half an hour before, and should have sent it out to be mutilated by the blue pencil of a copy editor; but as the city editor had twice appeared at the door of the local room, as though looking for some one to send out on another assignment, both Conway and Bronson kept on steadily writing against time, to keep him off until some one else came in.

That is a sheet of our copy paper.

And, all the time, the telephone-bell is ringing madly, and Kings are being killed on the Continent, and Empires are saying"You're another," and Mister Gladstone is calling down brimstone upon the British Dominions, and the little black copy-boys are whining "kaa-pi chay-ha-yeh" (copy wanted) like tired bees, and most of the paper is as blank as Modred's shield.

Old copy misplaces the words break and bend; the alteration here made was suggested by Mr Collier.

Neither points nor spellin's o' the smallest consequence in a copy o' verses.

A copy pencil never drew.

What though you tell me each metrical puppy Might make of such parodies two pair a day; Mocking birds think they obtain for each copy Paradise plumes for the parodied lay: Ladder of fame!

The old copy prints the ordinary abbreviation for with, which may have been misread by the printer.

For the first edition of seven hundred and fifty copies quarto, Scott received £169 6 s., and then sold the copyright for £500.

Then he jumped and gasped, and copy-readers and office-boys jumped and gasped, and the religious editor dashed frantically for the stairs, outrunning the entire staff down the hall, though he had farther to go than any other man or woman there.

"Junior Assistant wanted to Grocery, Spirit and Provision business; send copy references and salary expected.

The facts were recalled; the sending of Mr. Sloan and many reporters to Rutland; the need of extra hands at the copy-table that day.

The expressing of ideas that are not your own is mere copy work, and seldom worth doing.

Why, he himself tells us all that he is a member in the court, not a copy-clerk.

The present copy commences with signature C1, and extends to sig.

Against the compilers of grammars, I urge no conclusions at which any man can hesitate, who accedes to my preliminary remarks upon them; and these may be summed up in the following couplet of the poet Churchill: "To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence To fame;to copy faults, is want of sense.

" We ascended to the laboratory, where Polton was already busy inspecting the massively built copying camera whichwith the long, steel guides on which the easel or copy-holder travelledtook up the whole length of the room on the side opposite to that occupied by the chemical bench.

And there are yet others, who, in disdain of trifles, copy inscriptions elegant and rude, ancient and modern; and transcribe into their book the walls of every edifice, sacred or civil.

In the lithographed copy lines 3-7 are hopeless and there is no rubbing to help.

27 Words to use with  copies