Have you ever handled, not one, but hundreds of his documentsletters, franked envelopes, cheques signed by Dickens, cheques indorsed by him, legal agreements bearing his signature, and the original MSS. of his works?

Dr. Eliel, who had come to visit Patricia, was also called into Jane Merrick's room, and after she had carefully read the paper in their presence the mistress of Elmhurst affixed her signature to the document which transferred the great estate to the little Irish girl, and the notary and the doctor solemnly witnessed it and retired.

He then caused a register to be opened at the Government house to receive the signatures of all those who should approve of his advice.

But the most curious case occurred at Alexandria, to which place my wife went to obtain the signature of a pious old lady, who had been the claimant of a youngster found among the passengers of the Pearl, and who had been sold, in consequence, for the southern market.

"Who in God's name, then," she asked hoarsely, "could have known about the money and forged his signature!

I have a little business paper to write, and you must both witness my signature."

So the gland of energy for emergencies writes its signature always all over the skin.

Coles, in his "Art of Simpling" (1656), thus describes it: "Though sin and Satan have plunged mankind into an ocean of infirmities, yet the mercy of God, which is over all His workes, maketh grasse to growe upon the mountains and herbes for the use of men, and hath not only stamped upon them a distinct forme, but also given them particular signatures, whereby a man may read even in legible characters the use of them.

A resolution passed by the two houses, but not intended to have the force of law, such as an agreement to do something, is called a concurrent resolution, and does not require the president's signature.

No. 11 shows the signature squeezed in at the bottom of a page; the flourish was attempted, and accompanied by the words: "No room for the flouish," the r of flourish being omitted.

And while the two men were thus engaged in came Mrs. Marlow, bringing letters which needed Fullaway's signature.

" The decree having been read, and voted unanimously, we signed it, and the Representatives crowded round the table to add their signatures to ours.

Having maturely considered that bill within the time allowed me by the Constitution, and being convinced that some of its provisions conflict with the rule adopted for my guide on this subject of legislation, I have been compelled to withhold from it my signature, and it has therefore failed to become a law.

MY DEAR SIR, Though I sympathize to a great extent with the prayer of the petition to Parliament which you sent to me yesterday, and assent to most of the reasons, I do not attach my signature to it, for the following considerations: 1.

He tore open the telegram first and permitted himself a little start when he saw the signature.

The father read the signature; it was 'Herbert Hardman!'

I want no signature.

The document before him was a legally-worded affair awaiting a signature.

Having ordered[b] Harrison, whose partisans were collecting signatures to a petition, to be taken into custody, he despatched three regiments to occupy the principal posts in the city, and commanded the attendance of the house in the Painted Chamber.

No doubt there is a certain amount of supervision, and there are severe regulations which compel the nurses to bring certificates of morality, books setting forth their names, ages, parentage, the situations they have held, and so on, with other documents on which they have immediately to secure a signature from the Prefecture, where the final authorization is granted them.

he laughed in a strange, high-pitched key as he threw himself into a chair and scribbled something rapidly upon paper, appending his signature in his small crabbed handwriting.

" It will scarcely be known to any one in the West that when signatures were being gathered for the great mass-address of protest dispatched to St. Petersburg in 1899, those who refused their signatures numbered martyrs among them.

" The two Assistants, MM. Grandet and Quesnault, offered to sign the decree, but the President ruled that it would be more correct only to accept the signatures of the titular judges, the Assistants not being qualified when the Court was complete.

Upon this several Councillors of State declared that, indignant as they were, they could not place their signatures beside the Republican signatures.

" Here follow the signatures of former representatives, maires, doctors, lawyers, literary men, merchants, and others.]