So he tore out a fly-leaf from the big Bible, and jotted down notes of the meeting,"An outpouring of the loyal heart of West Virginia,"and yawned, ready for bed, contented with the world, himself, and God.

He was bumping up against new wonders at every footstep, and he stumbled continuously as he endeavoured to jot down his impressions in the fat notebook.

But it won't do a bit of harm for you and Beth to jot down all the brilliant thoughts you run across, for the benefit of our subscribers.

" "Yes, Jane," jotting down the memorandum.

"I said I'd make that my last venture, and to remind myself how desperate my chances were I just jotted down those words, and pinned the note to the bill.

" The contrast between the detective's quiet English tones and the Frenchwoman's impetuous appeal was accentuated by the methodical way in which Crewe slowly jotted down an entry in his open notebook.

[On the blank pages inside the letter Dibdin seems to have jotted down ideas for his contribution to the album.

During the deliberation in the Rue Popincourt, at which I had just presided, Baudin had lent me his pencil to jot down some names.

He had never had the time or opportunity of jotting down the numbers of the notes.

" "I am much impressed," I said, as I put away my notebook, after having jotted down the points that Thorndyke had advised me to consider"I am much impressed by your powers of observation and your capacity for reasoning from apparently trivial data; but I do not see, even now, why you viewed that cigar with such immediate and decided suspicion.

She jotted down reports, dealt out mail and room-keys, kept her neuralgic eye on stairs and elevators and halls, her sound orb on tube and pantry signals, while through and between and above all she guided the stream of humanity that trickled past her deskbellhops, Polish chambermaids, messenger boys, guests, waiters, parlour maids.

Stroke by stroke he built the picture of that dead mother, like a painter who jots down the first sketch of a large composition.

It is very fortunate, too, that I have been supplied with all the writing materials I require, for during my long hours of idleness I have been able to jot down in my notebook the slightest incidents that have occurred since I was abducted from Healthful House, and to keep a diary day by day.

The present prophet knows only his England, but, so far as England is concerned, he can cover a sheet of paper with scarcely a pause, jotting down memoranda of numberless forces that make against any such rational reconstruction.

"I could have jotted down the graphic and lifelike description he would give of a probable murderer.

They are as intangible as the incense in this cathedral, as impossible to put in black and white as it would be to jot down in notes the music that pours out from the pipes of the unseen organ, or to paint the light that streams through the cathedral windows.

I used to get into the habit of jotting down the things he had said, and I improved by practice.

At one time he jots down news of a voyage to the unknown seas of the north.

And he would begin to jot downwith the assistance of a few friends, perhapsthis essential list.

Taking his pencil he began to jot down the various amounts they owed on a blank page of his pocket diary.

He jotted down the peculiar phases of his master's new disease with the care and minute exactness of a physician, and, we doubt not, ultimately added the knowledge of the symptoms of home-sickness to his already well-filled stores of erudition.

I made him comfortable in a deep-bottomed rocker, and I jotted down my understanding of the honest sailor's Rotterdam English as he himself translated his ample notes in his native tongue.

But I may jot down a few recollections of the culminating day of the Florentine revolution.

But the quiet, brooding teacher in the Swiss city which has at one time or another immured so many rare minds, had for years been jotting down his reflections in a private journal.

About the fifth year it struck me that it would be well to jot down her more connected utterances, since I knew shorthand.