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Taking our own monuments, cut with our own hands, inscribed with our own signs-manual, what would they infer our system of religion to have been?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

The ordinary small collection of rarities has no room for three-volume novels, those signs-manual of our British dulness and crafty disdain for literature.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

And the sight of those signs-manual of iniquity had an immediate effect on me; they converted the unknown perpetrator of this horror from a mere abstraction of disaster into a real, living person.

From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)