John Hancocks

Usage examples of signatures.

Albert expected to have something new this time to show to the traveller, but, to his great surprise, the latter, without seeking for the signatures, many of which, indeed, were only initials, named instantly the author of every picture in such a manner that it was easy to see that each name was not only known to him, but that each style associated with it had been appreciated and studied by him.

I arrived just in time to obtain your signatures, or they would have been disputed with me.

In other words, she declares that the signatures to these documents are forgeries.

First there were the handwriting experts who photographed the signatures, made lantern slides of them, and examined them on the screen.

Weight was given to their denial by the fact that the signatures on the documents in no way resembled the signatures with which they provided the investigator.

Lincoln signatures from the most frequently reproduced of the historic documents he signed.

I shall superimpose the tracing on the various signatures of the authentic Lincoln documents.

If two signatures are identical, then, one must be a tracing of the other.

She thought of Sid as a boy, inching closer to his radio to catch scratchy distant music, and suddenly a vision opened up inside her, a vision of a web the music made, stretching across time and space, entering the ears of a girl a hundred years ago, edging out her fingers for her children to hear eighty years ago, coming out in hums from those same children now grown fifty years ago, in the hearing of their own children and maybe the children of strangers, melting from one form into another, threads of tune catching up different beads of words, carrying them, dropping them, threading through others, transforming and traveling and yet carrying the original signatures of the first drums, the first lyres, the first flutes, the first voices.

All signatures are stored until purposefully purged by transporter personnel.