Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumored that a well-known professor recently discovered a papyrus manuscript of the Iliad of the date 308 B. C., in an Athenian monastery...
...manuscript verses...
...will soon publish the hitherto inedited "Comment on the Divine Comedy" by Benvenuto da Imola. It was the intention of the Dante Society of Cambridge to do this, but it was thought better to allow Lord Vernon to carry out the design of his father who had prepared the manuscript before his death...
...listeners when, at the conclusion of the second stanza, the poet fell exhausted into the arms of his friends. A moody silence ensued, broken at last by a slight, dark lady, with remarkably sharp eyes, Miss M. E. Baddone by name, who arose and read from a finely written manuscript...
There was an awkward pause. Miss Baddone was blushing deeply. She never spoke out quite so openly as that in any of her books. She felt that she ought to be indignant; and so, after mature deliberation, she fixed her eyes meaningly upon Mr. Reade's manuscript and frowned. Then when she had drawn upon herself the attention of the entire assembly, she left the room with an air of offended dignity which became her exceedingly well. Mr. Algernon C. Swansdown moved restlessly in his seat. "If that's not nice enough for her, it certainly just suits...