"Transcriber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [ Transcriber's Note: The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the ...
— Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) - A Tragedy in Four Acts • Frank Wedekind
... as a watch or a clock—sunset and sunrise. Perhaps the man of the family may sit a while at dusk on his mud door-sill, with his bubbling water pipe (if he has one), and watch the stars slowly swing across the arch. A pinch of very bad tobacco is slowly consumed; then he enters the hunt [Transcriber's note: hut?], flings himself upon his matting (perhaps a cotton rug, more likely a bundle of woven water reeds) and sleeps. No one wakes him; habit rouses him at dawn. He scrubs his teeth with a fibrous stick. It is a part of his religious belief to keep his teeth clean. The East ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath
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— The Pianolist - A Guide for Pianola Players • Gustav Kobb
... [Transcriber's Note: In the First Movement, one word was missing from our print copy; the symbol [***] denotes ...
— Bitter-Sweet • J. G. Holland
... soon procured occupation as a letter-writer and copyist, and used to sit at the corner of the Rue de Marivaux, and practise his calling: but he hardly made profits enough to keep body and soul together. To mend his fortunes he tried poetry; but this was a more wretched occupation still. As a transcriber he had at least gained bread and cheese; but his rhymes were not worth a crust. He then tried painting with as little success; and as a last resource, began to search for the philosopher's stone, and tell fortunes. This was a happier idea; he soon increased in substance, and had wherewithal ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
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