Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: manuscripts
IPA transcription: [m'ænjəskɹ,ɪpts]
Pronunciations of manuscripts
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Usage examples
  • Bringing manuscripts in here!
  • With its silk cushions, Oriental rugs, and velvet draperies, its lining of books, and writing-table heaped with manuscripts and proofs, it witnessed to his impartial love of luxury and hard work.
  • I explained to Traddles that there was a difficulty in keeping King Charles the First out of Mr. Dick's manuscripts; Mr. Dick in the meanwhile looking very deferentially and seriously at Traddles, and sucking his thumb.
  • After all, I reflected, man makes little progress within himself. Through succeeding generations he piles up those resources which he possesses outside of himself, the tools of his hands, and the warehouses of knowledge for his brain, whether they be parchment manuscripts, printed book, or electronorecordographs.
  • He made more stir and show of business than any of the others; dipping into various books, fluttering over the leaves of manuscripts, taking a morsel out of one, a morsel out of another, "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little." The contents of his book seemed to be as heterogeneous as those of the witches' cauldron in Macbeth.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording John Locke, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Atlanta Nights, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording J. R. R. Tolkien, License CC BY-SA 4.0