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Usage examples of shorthand.

On Grand Rounds, he maintains the current catalog only by metonymic shorthand.

Still, the fact remains that Portia and her admirer said nothing that might not have been taken down by a shorthand reporter and printed in a manual for daily use in crowded drawing-rooms.

Banichi and Jago to know the situation as fully as possible, predigested for atevi comprehension: he did what he could to make it understood in shorthand, and he gave a second, reflexive bow of respect to a man of pragmatic combativeness and considerable virtue.

An elastic band caused the book to open at a definite page, and Steingall, who knew a little of everything, and a great deal of all matters appertaining to his profession, deciphered some shorthand characters which promised enlightenment.

Open before her lay a stenographic notebook, its pages covered with expert shorthand pen strokes.

The twenty-first century had brought with it a tape recorder, rather than the Gregg shorthand method or a stenotype machine.

An intercepted letter in a German shorthand instigated a shorthand subsection that soon could read missives in more than 30 systems, most commonly Gabelsberger, Schrey, Stolze-Schrey, Marti, Brock-away, Duployee, Sloan-Duployan, and Orillana.

Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.

On top of that, the lengths of each stick were divided into shorthand sections: the relay list, action or venge details, casualties, and so on.

Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.

Two lines of thought have been particularly active during this transition, and as a kind of shorthand we can conceive of them as resurrections of the Hobbesian and the Lockean ideologies that in another era dominated the European conceptions of the sovereign state.

Labeling, after all, is a good shorthand way to tell the audience where someone fits in, ideologically, in the big scheme of things.

He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad.

Followers of obsolete unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, officials of unconstituted police states, brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, drinkers of the Heavy Fluid sealed in translucent amber of dreams.

If spirits and demigods were a shorthand for all the pseudorandomness of nature, then God was a shorthand for all the spirits taken together.