After leaving Cambridge, he gained his livelihood for some time by teaching a shorthand of his own invention, but was so distinguished as a man of learning generally that he was chosen an F.R.S. in 1723.

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"I've got something coming along pretty soon"he repeated more slowly"I've got something coming along pretty soon, where there'll be scope for a young lady that can write shorthand well.

This is what he said, because Mr. Barrows (he's a trustee) knows shorthand, and afterwards he gave it to me all written out to copy in our troop book.

We sold the house, moved into rooms; Adela learned shorthand and went into an office.

Byrne simplified shorthand.

By night he studied shorthand, in order to fit himself to be a reporter,this in imitation of his father, who was now engaged by a newspaper to report the speeches in Parliament.

He couldn't read shorthand.

As soon as you mentioned shorthand he became suspicious and showed uneasiness and anger.

The time has come to formulate, authoritatively, the precise scope of intellect which such distinctions suggest and to define the shorthand of conversation which their use has made practicable.

"Why, I haven't forgotten my shorthand, and there are always the department stores."

How about it?' Jane thought for exactly thirty seconds, weighing the shorthand typing against Paris and the Majestic and Life.

That nice artificer who filed a chain so thin and light that a flea could trail it (as if he had worked shorthand, and taught his tools to cypher), did but contrive an emblem for this skipjack and his slight productions.

I've enjoyed myself and polished up my shorthand.