It was not in English; the cover bore a picture of two reegs and the writing consisted of the crabbed, pictorial reegian script.

The revolutionary character of the Carolingian reform cannot be over-emphasized; efforts at taming the crabbed Merovingian script and Germanic hands had been under way before Alcuin arrived at Aachen, where he was master from 782 to 796, with a two-year break.

Then he brought out The Book of Dreams and puzzled over its crabbed script.

He was bent over the biggest book Arya had ever seen, a great thick tome with cracked yellow pages of crabbed script, bound between faded leather covers, but he closed it to listen to Harwin's report.

Debierue had answered the manager of the clipping service in a crabbed, backhanded script with cursive letters so microscopic he must have written the letter with the aid of the magnified paperweight.

Though in a script too crabbed and archaic for Boq to decipher, perhaps this document supported the fable of a Kumbric Witch spell that gave the Animals the gifts of speech, memory, and remorse.

Hospital bills and Blue Cross forms, cash register receipts for vitamins from the Waverly Drugstore with Ariel's crabbed script across the top.

She wondered how Aivas had fared reading the crabbed tight script that Master Arnor had used in writing up the Records.

"An improvement on Master Arnor's crabbed script, I devoutly hope," Robinton remarked in a bland tone.

Laying aside the last of the pages of crabbed French script, the bardn said, "Your grace, friend Bass, the ship we have but just taken at such dear cost was no more a ship of the French roi than are our ships of King Arthur.