Under this entry, which was made laboriously in ink, there was another one, in lead pencil, done by Philip's brother, Jack: This is called selling Pigeons short.

I have moreover given the wench an ivory-leafed pocket-book, with a silver pencil, that she may make memoranda on occasion.

A reader with a bad arithmetical education, ignorant of the very existence of such a thing as a slide rule, knowing nothing of account keeping, who thinks of himself working out the resultant fractions with a stumpy pencil on a bit of greasy paper in a bad light, may easily think of this transfer of fractions as a dangerous and terrifying process.

Sir, you may as well maintain that a carrier, who has driven a packhorse between Edinburgh and Berwick for thirty years, does not know the road, as that Lord Mansfield does not know the law of England[1092].' At Mr. Nairne's, he drew the character of Richardson, the authour of Clarissa, with a strong yet delicate pencil.

"One evening before meeting Linda on the balcony, I took out of my medical cabinet a jar of glycerin and a small bottle of hydrocyanic acid, together with one of those little pencils of glass which chemists use in mixing certain corrosive substances.

[149:1] Perhaps I should explain that this was made by underlining the points of resemblance between the Gospels in different coloured pencil and reckoning up the results at the end of each section.

Then with an indelible pencil I scrawled below it "Sehr gute Bilde.

"Never has the graceful pencil of Mr. Doyle been more gracefully employed than in sketching the charming illustrations of this charming volume."Sun.

Pamphilus was celebrated for composition, Antiphilus for facility, Theon of Samos for prolific fancy, Apelles for grace, Pausias for his chiaro-oscuro, Nicomachus for his bold and rapid pencil, Aristides for depth of expression.

Now, telling the patient to look down, press a slender lead-pencil or penholder against the lid, parallel to and above the edge, and then pull the edge up, and turn it over the pencil by means of the lashes.

But it is denied that he understood grace, young and innocent beauty, the forms which express the tender and delicate feelings, those which the divine pencil of Raphael so admirably represented.

The language was pure Saxon; even the names of places, which often remain while the tongue entirely changes, were almost all affixed by the conquerors; the manners and customs were wholly German; and the same picture of a fierce and bold liberty, which is drawn by the masterly pencil of Tacitus, will suit those founders of the English government.

"I shall write you an item myself," she exclaimed, and seizing a stubby pencil, she wrote rapidly: "A battered and ungrammatical old woman from the valley of Virginia has settled in our midst.

The paper was a leaf torn from a note-book and closely covered on both sides with small, uneven writing done with a sharp black pencil.

With what a firm yet subtle pencil he has embodied "Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist!"

With what a firm yet subtle pencil he has embodied "Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist!"

He had a roll of tracing papers in his hand, and the end of a long, thick pencil in his mouth.

A tiny pencil of lightjust a single beam, no more than a few inches in diameterstruck through the darkness and formed a small luminous circle upon the white-painted wall above his head.

To have a general idea of the form and position of the heart, map its outline with colored pencils or crayon on the chest wall itself, or on some piece of clean, white cloth, tightly pinned over the clothing.

Then turning quickly to some paper on the little table at her side she wrote something with a gold pencil and handed to me.

He carried an umbrella little thicker than a walking-stick, and wrote out his list of dishes with a massive gold pencil.

" Young New York produced from his breast-pocket the blue enamelled case in which reposed his ivory tablets, and, seating himself upon the chain-box, wrote down with golden pencil the dictum of the sage.

Here I am reduced to confine my observations to tracing his great designs with a rapid pencil; but still I must previously be allowed to deliver my sentiments in a general manner on the subject of his most eminent peculiarities.

His fees consisted in a broken lead pencil.

It made you think of a million gritty slate pencils squeaking over a million slates all together.