Mathieu and Marianne repaired thither to see what preparations would be necessary, and they found Charlotte with a sketch-book on her knees, rapidly finishing an impression of the oak tree.

On one of his rough sketch maps he indicates the location of Lake Parinacochas and notes the fact that the water is "brackish."

A glance at the sketch plan on the preceding page will make the position of each quite clear.

Just as the poplars which run with it ceased, we had a lovely view up a dip between two fertile hills, to the snow-peaks near Barèges; a narrow path skirts the side of the hill, on the right, in the direction of the morning's sketching ground, but this we did not take, making, instead, for the hill standing immediately above the river.

Meanwhile the morning was going by as we talked, and, putting up his sketch-box, he accepted my invitation to join me at lunch.

Lighted by a little lamp, she sat there with a sketching-block on her knees, making a drawing of Maurice's head as it rested among the roses.

Agence matrimoniale, sketch cinematographique de Vincent Telly, pseud.

We can, nevertheless, in no other way indicate in advance the place which the subject of our sketch occupies in the literature of Germany.

" She flushed and opened the portfolio on the little table by the window, standing behind me as I turned the sketches oversketches of the grounds and trees and garden.

He looked at the pencil, he looked at the sketch pad; he sniffed experimentally at the hat and then at the portfolio.

"In our work, the ability to make a rough but reliable sketch survey is often of great value.

Very astute people in clubs and saloon bars talked darkly about those two moles, and Priam's nod in response to the whispers of the solicitor's clerk: such details do not escape the modern sketch writer at a thousand a year.

I nearly did do it, though, for when I had my sketching-book in my hand on board, the spanker-boom, or some such thing, came over suddenly and hit me such a whack on the head, that for two minutes I lay insensible, and thought I should never become sensible again.

Priam Farll got away from the shop without this apparatus for the confection of masterpieces, but he did not get away without a sketching-box which he had had no intention of buying.

In a local sketching club Miss Spurr distinguished herself and gained several prizes, and she has at length taken up her abode in the metropolis, where she has attended the Lambeth Schools, studying diligently both from casts and life.

He sat with half-closed eyes, now and again dipping his brush over the gunwale, and anon, for a half-minute or so, flinging broad splashes of water-colour upon his sketching-pad.

Relieving the old guard CHAPTER X. MAP READING AND SKETCHING Section 1.

In that case you've acquired the best sketch artist in America.

Two years later he had become acquainted with an artist who was staying a few weeks at Lime Ridge, and went with him on his sketching-tramps.

Here he paused of a sudden, and laid his sketch-block slowly down on his knee.

He has no sketch-bookarticles forbidden; his passport is in his pocket; and he speaks all tongues of German men.

Of his life at this institution he has left us abundant and charming memorials in the Essays, "Recollections of Christ's Hospital," and "Christ's Hospital Five-and-thirty Years Ago,"the latter sketch corrective of the rather optimistic impressions of the former.

It is not drawn to scale or worked out in the manner of practical architects; but the sketch exhibits features which we know to have existed in Buonarroti's planmasses of sculpture, with extensive bas-reliefs in bronze.

I have, therefore, taken in hand a short sketch-history of mine, published some six months ago, have cut out some of it and have revised the rest, and blended it with the material of the following chapters, of which it forms nearly one-third.

We have, however, ventured upon the following sketch illustrative, in advance, of the reception, and which, in the absence of more explicit information, we may as well call ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRICK.