1 What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.
2 "I came at His Majesty the Emperor's wish to learn from your excellency how you propose to deal with the memorandum I have presented," said Prince Andrew politely.
3 I have endorsed a resolution on your memorandum and sent it to the committee.
4 So here are our accounts all settled, said Dolokhov, showing him the memorandum.
5 He had never so much as thought of making one, so far as his papers afforded any evidence; for there was no kind of hint, sketch, or memorandum, of any testamentary intention whatever.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP 6 He then referred to a memorandum.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 7 At the foot of the memorandum Thenardier wrote, Received on account, three hundred francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE 8 The wall-paper was defaced, in spots, by slops of beer and wine; or garnished with chalk memorandums, and long sums footed up, as if somebody had been practising arithmetic there.