At the end of the session, if you managed to keep them all in mind while you sat straight but also stayed relaxed, and if you concentrated on what you were doing instead of wishing you were out in the school yard playing Red Rover, you had pages of perfect ovals, upstrokes, and downstrokes, and by the end of third grade, these would have come together into some species of legible penmanship. ❋ Unknown (2009)
TRUINI: Because this saw cuts on the upcuts, upstrokes. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Why should downstrokes be thick and upstrokes thin? ❋ Unknown (2003)
She drew more lines — dots and dashes, downstrokes and upstrokes, bends and hooks. ❋ TAN, Amy (2001)
It was written, not printed; written in a clear, even hand, with thick downstrokes and thin upstrokes, very large, easier than print, and so beautiful that Lucy stared at it for a whole minute and forgot about reading it. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1952)
On his return with the inkstand to the corner of my shelf, he could not resist sometimes boasting when he had not made a single blot; or confessing to me, in perfect confidence, how much the thinness of Susan's upstrokes, or the thickness of her downstrokes, was owing to the clearness of his slit or the fineness of his nib. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The times I've written it, thick down strokes, thin upstrokes! ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
_Why_ should downstrokes be thick and upstrokes thin? ❋ Unknown (1906)
It was written, as were all the letters we received from this Cornish venturer, in a woman's hand, small and delicate, with upstrokes like spider's thread; written in French, too, quite easy and careless. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
_Self-esteem_, to which is allied conceit and ostentation, shows itself in proportion to the size of the writing, the taller and more flourished the upstrokes and the longer the downstrokes, the greater the self-assertiveness. ❋ Douglas Blackburn (1893)
He brought out from his desk a copybook wherein he had set it all down with the utmost attention to upstrokes and downstrokes and punctuation. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
If perchance the upstrokes and downstrokes do not, at first sight, appear to be fully formed, yet when we take it up and critically compare it with writing in which dashes and flourishes predominate, we shall at once see how much more of real and sterling merit it possesses. ❋ Various (1880)
There were a certain number of slips printed from copperplate and pasted upon cardboard at Dr Dunham's, all consisting of good, sterling advice to the young, which the boys had had to copy over and over again, so as to get in the habit of writing a good, clear, round hand, with fine upstrokes and good, firm downstrokes; and one of them which Nic had well in mind was, "Judge not rashly." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
This kind of stem stitch is chiefly used for the fine upstrokes of letters and numbers, and for linen embroidery. ❋ Th��r��se De Dillmont (1868)
Live, Givers' music is a clatter of percussion, bright tropical melodies, slinky guitar upstrokes and playful vocals that float over polyrhythmic grooves. ❋ Unknown (2011)
+Strum down on the quarter notes, and up on the upstrokes ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thick, sustained notes drive the song forward, before some nice disco-funk upstrokes emerge to add variety. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This ska outfit is armed with upstrokes and horn-hooks aplenty, a live show to die for, and an appreciation for anyone and everyone who has, and will help them in any way possible. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When playing consecutive notes on one string, economy picking is just like alternate picking: a constant alternation of down - and upstrokes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I... am... [writing]... this... on.. the... upstrokes... and... [watching]... [porn]... too ❋ Snbia (2007)
