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  • Mer is next in line, and I transcribe her speech phonetically.†   (source)
  • But Mae was so entertained by it that she sought out Francis, who, by the time they saw each other, had already seen the note transcribed and posted onto a half-dozen subsites; one watcher in Missoula had already read it while wearing a powdered wig, the background filled with faux-patriotic music.†   (source)
  • Below Amra's e-mail is pasted a short paragraph from Roshi, which Amra has transcribed.†   (source)
  • She was transcribing names and phone numbers from an old book to a new one.†   (source)
  • Langdon picked up the pencil and carefully transcribed Dürer's numbered magic square onto the slip of paper, directly beside the lettered square.†   (source)
  • Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed.†   (source)
  • I could conceivably transcribe a language I don't even understand."†   (source)
  • They were signed by the radioman's assistant, a Seaman Philip Milholland—he'd transcribed the radio transmissions.†   (source)
  • She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter.†   (source)
  • Although we tape-recorded each session, her secretary was present to transcribe her dictation as well, which she did very faithfully.†   (source)
  • He recorded the conversations and transcribed them at night back at the Eye Care house.†   (source)
  • He had a rape case coming to fruition, the perp identified from a college face book and his statements transcribed and ready for the AG's office.†   (source)
  • Mac ingeniously hid the transcribed version of the manuscript inside the binding of a number of notebooks he used for his studies.†   (source)
  • He stared at the blank white expanse for a moment, then dipped a quill in ink and began to transcribe a column of glyphs.†   (source)
  • If you transcribed that person's interactions with his clients, he would sound just like Tom Gau because he would be using all of Tom Gau's words.†   (source)
  • Next he transcribed the message from the film to flash paper on his own portable typewriter, translating from the Russian as he went.†   (source)
  • And it has an electronic transcriber so it'll automatically type out what I've recorded by voice.†   (source)
  • In class, he carefully transcribes the outline from the blackboard: Population divided into castes (social class, rank) 1.†   (source)
  • I'll transcribe them and email them to you."†   (source)
  • A court reporter sat ready to transcribe every word.†   (source)
  • They asked me to come here to transcribe the Books.†   (source)
  • Though no one transcribed the speech, Dickinson's extensive notes would survive.†   (source)
  • So you'll have some idea of what this family talk I heard sounds like, I'11 quote what my mother said during a recent conversation which I videotaped and then transcribed.†   (source)
  • Do not write upon the sheets unless you wish the contents to be transcribed back to those in Sir Alistair's keeping.†   (source)
  • No. In transcribing the accounts of such barbarity, the researchers were intrigued to notice how different this speech was from current African American Vernacular English.†   (source)
  • Sit down in my room and transcribe names and dates from the various envelopes into a notebook.†   (source)
  • I'll have them transcribed for study—all I have so far are the coded summaries Comrade Stuart sent up.†   (source)
  • Eddie and Stink offered a description, which Captain Rhallon painstakingly transcribed into his notebook.†   (source)
  • The passage a while back about her early life in Cracow, for example—the soliloquy which I have tried to transcribe as accurately as I have been able to remember it—is, I am now certain, made up mostly of the truth.†   (source)
  • The secretary had not yet transcribed the shorthand, but she had read it through several times before hiding the notebook in a safe place.   (source)
    transcribed = translated in writing
  • It's time I transcribed those notes.   (source)
    transcribed = translate in writing
  • I prefer to file my taxes electronically to minimize the chances of an IRS employee making an error while transcribing numbers into their computer.
  • Transcribe the oral history of this tribe
  • I wrote the bytes in the sand as they came in, took a picture, then transcribed them in the Hab.†   (source)
  • At two-thirty A.M., one of the FCC transcribers yelled to her to come quickly.†   (source)
  • The entry was transcribed from a journal' entry Elias Bram had made during the winter of 1647.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels, you will have to speak up so the quills can transcribe your response.†   (source)
  • The transcribed transmissions had gone into a manila folder, and the folder had gone into a file cabinet in a room stuffed full of coast guard records.†   (source)
  • Their laughter would echo under the stars and their steps would weave in wide curves back and forth across the straight tracks that they had made upon their arrival— such that in the morning their hosts would find the giant figure of a G clef transcribed by their boots in the snow.†   (source)
  • She hands her a pile of cards and indicates that she is to transcribe the details of each person first onto a card and then into the large leather-bound book between them.†   (source)
  • In fact, if the reporters whom he was dutifully transcribing had only seen his handiwork, they would have taken off their hats, bowed their heads, and acknowledged that here was a master of objectivity.†   (source)
  • Photographs, surveillance reports, detailed allegations, linked names, transcribed tapes—wiretaps, bugs, break-ins.†   (source)
  • Carter and Sadie Kane first made themselves known in a recording I received last year, which I transcribed as The Red Pyramid.†   (source)
  • …Dur-FAR-then DURE (durerhymes withlure ) Galbatorix-gal-buh-TOR-icks Gil'ead-GILL-ee-id Glaedr-GLAY-dur Hrothgar-HROTH-gar Islanzadi-iss-lan-ZAH-dee Jeod-JODE (rhymes withcode ) Murtagh-MUR-tag (murrhymes withpurr ) Nasuada-nah-SOO-ah-dah Nolfavrell-NOLL-fah-vrel (nollrhymes withtoll ) Oromis-OR-uh-miss Ra'zac-RAA-zack Saphira-suh-FEAR-uh Shruikan-SHREW-kin Silthrim-SEAL-thrim (silis a hard sound to transcribe; it's made by flicking the tip of the tongue off the roof of the mouth.†   (source)
  • When the message was finished, he ran the tape at high speed and transcribed the message, handing it to the communications officer who was waiting with his code book.†   (source)
  • Ninety days for the court reporter to transcribe hundreds of pages of courtroom proceedings; ninety plus because they seldom delivered on time.†   (source)
  • Still, he was confident enough about the draft that he laboriously transcribed the full text in his own hand, and later sent the copy to Abigail, who, understandably, thought he had written the Declaration.†   (source)
  • The students went around for days transcribing them into their notebooks before they were covered with whitewash and lye.†   (source)
  • I doubt if the civilians could hear as they each were wearing transcriber phones and were bent over typers — besides, they didn't matter.†   (source)
  • Thus she was in the position of having drawn upon her like flooding sunrise itself the whole culminating design of his hate-drenched philosophy when he made her take down in Gabelsberger shorthand, then transcribe on the typewriter in Polish and German, the entire text of his chef d'oeuvre: Poland's Jewish Problem, etc. She recalled the hectic excitement which from time to time stole into his voice as, champing on a cigar, he paced the damp and smoky study in the house, and she…†   (source)
  • By this time, indeed for several years, Sophie had been transcribing some of her father's dictation, and humble and subservient as any peonness, had taken on every secretarial chore he demanded.†   (source)
  • Never before had she transcribed any correspondence which was not somehow connected with Polish affairs and Polish language—those official letters to Berlin usually being the province of a poker-faced clerk Scharfuhrer on the floor below who clumped upstairs at regular intervals to hammer out Hoss's messages to the various SS chief engineers and proconsuls.†   (source)
  • He then returned to the agony of the parish father, dictating a letter in German which he ordered Sophie to render into the priest's language and which now, this following day, she was transcribing on her machine, rather gratified to feel that she was able to turn the dross of Hoss's German prose into finely articulated filaments of golden Polish: Dear Father Chybiriski, we are shocked and distressed to hear of the vandalism of your church.†   (source)
  • It is against the man who valued his pearls so little that he was willing to fling them into the muck and to let them become the occasion for a whole concert of grunting, transcribed by the court stenographer.†   (source)
  • There were few printing presses in the New World and the boys soon made a fair living transcribing comedies for the theater, ballads for the crowds, and advertisements for the merchants.†   (source)
  • Every few weeks I came to rest, finding myself once more in the zone of trade or tourism, recuperated, set up my studio, transcribed my sketches, anxiously packed the complete canvases, dispatched them to my New York agent and then set out again, with my small retinue, into the wastes.†   (source)
  • I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing.†   (source)
  • — made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.†   (source)
  • We transcribe here a note made by his own hand:— NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.†   (source)
  • [Transcriber's Note: Number runs from 12 to 14.†   (source)
  • Of course I have not transcribed beyond the first eight lines.†   (source)
  • Chapter 8 First Report of Dr. Watson >From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table.†   (source)
  • And the reason is, that my secretary cannot transcribe Sweet, having been perforce taught in the schools of Pitman.†   (source)
  • …to his daughter, and, later, in the suffering which she had caused him; she could see the tortured expression which was never absent from the old man's face in those terrible last years; she knew that he had definitely abandoned the task of transcribing in fair copies the whole of his later work, the poor little pieces, we imagined, of an old music-master, a retired village organist, which, we assumed, were of little or no value in themselves, though we did not despise them, because…†   (source)
  • Transcribed here the speech sounds harmless enough, particularly as uttered in the sweet, high, casual pipe with which, at all interlocutors, but above all at his eternal governess, he threw off intonations as if he were tossing roses.†   (source)
  • PYGMALION BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt", and "hed".†   (source)
  • [a] [Transcriber's note a: Alternate text, appears in all three editions on hand: " 'tis a' awkward gift for a man, poor soul," said the maltster.†   (source)
  • SHAKESPEARE;[525] OR, THE POET [Transcriber's Note: Shakspeare is spelled as "Shakspeare" as well as "Shakespeare" in this book.†   (source)
  • A better book than I shall ever write was there; leaf after leaf presenting itself to me, just as it was written out by the reality of the flitting hour, and vanishing as fast as written, only because my brain wanted the insight, and my hand the cunning, to transcribe it.†   (source)
  • Wherefore I shall now transcribe some of them from a manuscript, wherein they were then tendered unto consideration: "General Considerations for the Plantation of New England "First, It will be a service unto the Church of great consequence, to carry the Gospel unto those parts of the world, and raise a bulwark against the kingdom of Antichrist, which the Jesuits labour to rear up in all parts of the world.†   (source)
  • His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar,* and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.†   (source)
  • When the memory of the first races felt itself overloaded, when the mass of reminiscences of the human race became so heavy and so confused that speech naked and flying, ran the risk of losing them on the way, men transcribed them on the soil in a manner which was at once the most visible, most durable, and most natural.†   (source)
  • And in this chapter it was, headed, "Smeer," or "Fat," that I found a long detailed list of the outfits for the larders and cellars of 180 sail of Dutch whalemen; from which list, as translated by Dr. Snodhead, I transcribe the following: 400,000 lbs. of beef.†   (source)
  • I declare I swell with pride as these august names are transcribed by my pen, and I think in what brilliant company my dear Becky is moving.†   (source)
  • Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious minuteness.†   (source)
  • …an idea of the private establishment of the Bishop of D——, and of the manner in which those two sainted women subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the friend of her childhood.†   (source)
  • …much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.†   (source)
  • We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising events which had taken place at M. sur M. These articles are rather summary.†   (source)
  • If it would be of any service your way I will get it transcribed and send it to you.†   (source)
  • The Greek poems themselves, continuously transcribed and studied in Byzantium, reasserted their presence in Western Europe from the early Renaissance, first in Latin translations for writers like Boccaccio and Chaucer, and finally in the first published Greek text, printed at Florence in 1488.†   (source)
  • [Transcriber's note: Page 90 was missing from the source document.†   (source)
  • …this account of the struldbrugs might be some entertainment to the reader, because it seems to be a little out of the common way; at least I do not remember to have met the like in any book of travels that has come to my hands: and if I am deceived, my excuse must be, that it is necessary for travellers who describe the same country, very often to agree in dwelling on the same particulars, without deserving the censure of having borrowed or transcribed from those who wrote before them.†   (source)
  • …that translation from one language into another, if it be not from the queens of languages, the Greek and the Latin, is like looking at Flemish tapestries on the wrong side; for though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that make them indistinct, and they do not show with the smoothness and brightness of the right side; and translation from easy languages argues neither ingenuity nor command of words, any more than transcribing or copying out one document from another.†   (source)
  • …are made to receive our opinions concerning the Institution, and Rights of Common-wealths, from Aristotle, Cicero, and other men, Greeks and Romanes, that living under Popular States, derived those Rights, not from the Principles of Nature, but transcribed them into their books, out of the Practice of their own Common-wealths, which were Popular; as the Grammarians describe the Rules of Language, out of the Practise of the time; or the Rules of Poetry, out of the Poems of Homer and…†   (source)
  • The clerk became the legislator, and those very peremptorily gave laws whose business it was, at first, only to transcribe them.†   (source)
  • The omission of this was highly blameable in one Mr Moore, who, having formerly borrowed some lines of Pope and company, took the liberty to transcribe six of them into his play of the Rival Modes.†   (source)
  • The lad was about seventeen years old, very handsome, modest, sensible, and well-bred, but mightily concerned for the loss of his [Transcriber's note: page 134 was missing from the source document.†   (source)
  • We shall therefore transcribe no more of her speech, as it approached still nearer and nearer to a subject too indelicate to find any place in this history.†   (source)
  • When I crept into the dismal cave where the old goat lay expiring, whole articulate groans even resembled those of a man, how was I surprised I my blood chilled in my veins, a cold [Transcriber's note: There are three pages (224-226) missing from the source document.†   (source)
  • The critic, rightly considered, is no more than the clerk, whose office it is to transcribe the rules and laws laid down by those great judges whose vast strength of genius hath placed them in the light of legislators, in the several sciences over which they presided.†   (source)
  • And yet, as there is no conduct so fair and disinterested but that it may be misunderstood by ignorance, and misrepresented by malice, I have been sometimes tempted to preserve my own reputation at the expense of my reader, and to transcribe the original, or at least to quote chapter and verse, whenever I have made use either of the thought or expression of another.†   (source)
  • Nay, I absolutely claim a property in all such sentiments the moment they are transcribed into my writings, and I expect all readers henceforwards to regard them as purely and entirely my own.†   (source)
  • However, as nothing past in it which can be thought material to this history, or, indeed, very material in itself, I shall omit the relation; the rather, as I have known some very fine polite conversation grow extremely dull, when transcribed into books, or repeated on the stage.†   (source)
  • Indeed, there is very little need of being particular in describing the whole form, as it differed so little from those libations of which so much is recorded in antient authors and their modern transcribers.†   (source)
  • It will be believed that Mr Allworthy failed not to read Tom a very severe lecture on this occasion; but it is unnecessary to insert it here, as we have faithfully transcribed what he said to Jenny Jones in the first book, most of which may be applied to the men, equally with the women.†   (source)
  • "It will be easy," says he, "for the reader to observe that I have frequently had greater regard to him than to my own reputation: for an author certainly pays him a considerable compliment, when, for his sake, he suppresses learned quotations that come in his way, and which would have cost him but the bare trouble of transcribing."†   (source)
  • We would have these gentlemen know we can see what is odd in characters as well as themselves, but it is our business to relate facts as they are; which, when we have done, it is the part of the learned and sagacious reader to consult that original book of nature, whence every passage in our work is transcribed, though we quote not always the particular page for its authority.†   (source)
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