"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
... Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | ...
— 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
... the background to this story. The only thing that upset your transcriber is that he is by nature on the side of the Cavaliers and the Monarchy, rather than that of ...
— The Boy who sailed with Blake • W.H.G. Kingston
... [Transcriber's Note: This pamphlet was first published in 1900 but was subsequently reprinted. It's not apparent if the curiosities in spelling date back to the original or were introduced later; they have been retained as found, and the reader is ...
— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
... Transcriber's Note: The topic of Throat, Sore (Clergyman's) includes advice for enunciating the vowels in their natural order ([a], ay, ee, o, oo). The use of [a] indicates that the a has a macron over it, since a macron cannot be represented ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk
... last line of the speech, "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been omitted by the transcriber ...
— The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe
... numbering indicate that four illustrations were missing. Physical damage seems to indicate that the frontispiece may also have been missing. Since there was no list of illustrations in the book, it is not known what their captions were. Short transcriber's notes indicate the locations of ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... Transcriber's note: this appeared to be an empty appendix, possibly under development. It does not appear in later editions of ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Constantine, as Isidore, Jerom, and Sozomen have assured us. Yea, there are shrewd probabilities that Noah himself had lived in this very Oak-plain before him; for this very place was called Ogge [see Transcriber's Note 1 at end of chapter], which was the name of Noah, so styled from the Oggyan (subcineritiis panibus) sacrifices, which he did use to offer in this renowned Grove. And it was from this example that the ancients, and particularly that the Druids of the nations, ...
— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers
... mistake had been made in the preparation of the music cylinder. In the original the final note of the first two bars is F natural, while in the third bar the tonality is raised and the F becomes F sharp. The transcriber had failed to make this change, and so had lost the uplifting effect of the sharped F. All the life and color of the phrase had been destroyed, and the result ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... This was my daily dilemma: Speak out and protest, and be removed or imprisoned—hold silence and [Transcriber's note: illegible word] the coward, and remain in the work. And ...
— Woman's Endurance • A.D.L.
... retaining the distinction between "Notes on the Text" and "Notes: Critical and Explanatory". Errors and anomalies are similarly listed at the end of the section in which they are found: the General Introduction and each of the four plays. Relevant Transcriber's Notes are repeated at the ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn
... and see how us niggers is. If us sick he call nuss. She old slavery woman. She come look at 'em. If dey bad sick dey send for de doctor. Us house all log house. Dey all dab with dirt 'tween de logs. Dey have dirt chimney make out of sticks and dab with mud. Dey [Transcriber's note: unfinished sentence ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. - Texas Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
... reckoned from sunrise, or more frequently from six A.M. With such an understanding, it is clear that ten might be called four, and four ten, and yet the same identical hour to be referred to; nor is it in the least difficult to imagine that some monkish transcriber, ignorant perhaps of the meaning of "o'clock," might fancy he was correcting, rather that corrupting, Chaucer's text, by changing ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 • Various
... Transcriber's Note on text: Some obvious errors have been corrected. Some spellings are modernized. See notes at end of ...
— A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion • William Dobein James
... half of those cliffs God has made. Above the grey slate ledges rise cliffs of man's handiwork, pierced with a hundred square black embrasures; and above them the long barrack-ranges of a soldier's town; which a foeman stormed once, when it was young: but what foeman will ever storm it again [Transcriber's note: punctuation missing from the end of this sentence in original. Possibly question mark.] What conqueror's foot will ever tread again upon the "broad stone of honour," and call Ehrenbreitstein ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... something compelling in the human eye, a magnetism upon which Science has yet to put her cold and unromantic finger. Have you never experienced the sensation that some [Transcriber's note: someone?] was looking at you? Doubtless you have. Well, Max presently turned his glance toward his silent fellow traveler. She had lifted her veil and was staring at him with wondering, fearing eyes. These eyes were somewhat ...
— The Princess Elopes • Harold MacGrath
... chastity, temperance? Or have you defiled those holy temples with drunkenness and lust? "Give an account of thy stewardship." Man of business, God has given you a quick brain, a keen eye, an aptitude for you [Transcriber's note: your?] calling. How are you using these things? Are you in your business walking honestly, as in the day? Will your accounts bear looking into by God's Eye? "Give ...
— The Life of Duty, v. 2 - A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles • H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
... [Transcriber's Note: Most Sidenotes appear at the beginning of a paragraph. Where they originally appeared at mid-paragraph, their approximate position is ...
— Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) • Lewis Theobald
... Transcriber's Note: The reader is obliged to seek information on "Julia Ward Howe, and others" elsewhere, as the digital images of this document contain final blank pages and a back cover, but ...
— History Plays for the Grammar Grades • Mary Ella Lyng
... Transcriber's Note: | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | | This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction, | | December 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any | | evidence ...
— And All the Earth a Grave • Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp)
... "Lay your template [Transcriber's note: corrected from "templet"] on those marks, Tom." After the foreman had produced a paper pattern which fitted them, ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... account of the classification of trees in assemblages, but simply glance at a few points. The Romans used four different words to express these distinctions. When they spoke of a wood with reference to its timber, they used the word silva; sal[Transcriber's note: remainder of word illegible], was a collection of wild-wood in the mountains; nemus, a smaller collection, partaking of cultivation, and answering to our ideas of a grove; lucus was a wood, of any ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various
... understood that he gave a loud cry and awoke, and knew, as in a mystery, that it was no dream, but that he was indeed come to the place that he had seen, and that this negotium was at his soul's heart. [There is either an omission here in the translation of Sir John's original MS., or else the transcriber has dashed his pen down in horror, or sought to produce an impression ...
— The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary • Robert Hugh Benson
... [Transcriber's Note: an image of a series of handwritten dots, dashes, vertical marks, and other marks appears here in ...
— Track's End • Hayden Carruth
... entry ends with an abbreviation ("Tom.", "Vol.", "papr."); the final period was supplied by the editor in most of these entries. Under the headings of Forma, Editio, Theca (size, edition, case number), sets of four unspaced dots .... were added by the transcriber to indicate an ...
— The Library of William Congreve • John C. Hodges
... Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents was not printed in this book. It has been created for the convenience ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... [Transcriber's Note: Numerous typographical errors and misspellings (especially of non-English words and names) in the original text have been corrected in this e-text, where the ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson
... [Transcriber's Note: This edition is from Microfiche. All copies that I've found are marked "Photographed from an imperfect copy." Printer errors have been left as is, but noted. We cannot account for the accuracy in some of the numbers, where the original ...
— The Art of Making Whiskey • Anthony Boucherie |
