The word “manuscript” is a noun referring to a handwritten or typed document, especially an author’s original work before publication. Writers use it when discussing drafts, submissions, or historical documents. The examples below are drawn from authentic works of fiction and nonfiction to show how “manuscript” appears in real writing.
Real Examples for Manuscript
I have never told this story, nor shall mortal man see this manuscript until after I have passed over for eternity.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21 words, 115 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
His further instructions related to this manuscript which I was to retain sealed and unread, just as I found it, for eleven years; nor was I to divulge its contents until twenty-one years after his death.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
36 words, 204 characters
Captain Carter had a small but beautiful cottage, situated on a bluff overlooking the river, and during one of my last visits, in the winter of 1885, I observed he was much occupied in writing, I presume now, upon this manuscript.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 230 characters
He was, when others were with him, the same genial, happy fellow we had known of old, but when he thought himself alone I have seen him sit for hours gazing off into space, his face set in a look of wistful longing and hopeless misery; and at night he would sit thus looking up into the heavens, at what I did not know until I read his manuscript years afterward.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
71 words, 363 characters
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