In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

He was influenced by Thomas Malthus' work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in seventeen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But it was not. It was written in a very general way that left the courts to decide what the law really said.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Some of her best work was written in the four years between eighteen fifty-eight and eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

There are also documents written in Braille, a method used by blind people to read and write.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

Steve Ember has more. "What Darwin Saw" is written in graphic novel form.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

If that requirement seems demanding, Shakespeare's sonnets are also written in iambic pentameter.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

It talks about getting old. His last book was written in nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

It had only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

It was written in the language of the people. The rulers of Britain at that time still spoke the Norman French they brought with them in ten sixty-six.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

The address was written in small letters in blue ink.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

A profit by a business is written in black numbers.

VOA: special.2009.04.26