Word: stylographic
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...first mention of the stylograph as yet, in fiction, is in the continuation of Howells' story, "A Modern Instance," in the March Century...
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...metamorphosis. Those two eyes grew into one wide cerulean expanse, the heavens of an unknown paradise, through which there burst the brightness of a sun more radiant far than day, the brightness of a glowing soul; and I was beginning to feel poetic, and had just taken out my stylograph for the purpose of penning a tender little sonnet on the cream-colored tops of my gaiters, when the conductor shrieked out, "Portland! Portland!" Here we took on several families of Maine emigrants, who, being unable to endure the rule of the oligarchical greenbacracy by which that country is oppressed...
...College papers have so often petitioned for new courses without achieving even the moderate success of having their petitions posted as "requiring further explanation" that we take up our stylograph with fear and trembling, even though it be only to ask the admission of the undergraduate student to a course already given in College; our reference is to Superlative Economy 1. When we were a Sub-Freshman we derived great pleasure and profit from the perusal of a little volume entitled "Ye Proverbes of Beniamin Franklin," and made up of such choice maxims as these, "Economic is Wealthe," "A Penny...