Looking for sentences and phrases with the word black-letter? Here are some examples.
Examples from Classical Literature
Here the city is all overwritten with black-letter, and the glad Italian sun makes the effect so much the stronger.
He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.
Then he gives the fractur, or black-letter characters, with some elaborate and beautiful capitals.
This ballad is given from a black-letter copy in the Pepys Collection, which is intitled as above.
Tyrwhitt substitutes to overlive, from the black-letter editions.
If the reader be inclined to judge for himself, we refer him to certain black-letter tracts on both sides, preserved in the medical department of the University of Padua.
Tell me, Monsieur Mills, have you found amongst them in some black-letter volume the power of foretelling a poor mortal's destiny, the power to look into the future?
Dimmesdale, noon-day, and entirely unawares, fell into a deep, deep slumber, sitting in his chair, with a large black-letter volume open before him on the table.
