18 collocations for pencilled

But at this remembrance a fresh thought comes to him; he takes one of his visiting cards from his pocket-book, pencils a few lines on it, and encloses it in an envelope ready to be posted.

Hechetu!" Like her mother, Tusee has finely pencilled eyebrows and slightly extended nostrils; but in her sturdiness of form she resembles her father.

The notebook was again brought into requisition and she penciled on its pages the following words: "What was the exact date that Jack Andrews landed in America?

The firelight pencilled in gold the edges of the wooden figure that presided over the stairs.

He might have kept the marked paper for future use, and, on the occasion of the robbery, pencilled a dated inscription on it, and slipped it into the safe as a sure means of diverting suspicion.

Rising, he walked across to the writing-table, and taking a piece of note-paper bearing the Heyburn crest, rapidly pencilled some memoranda upon it.

James H. Hammond, for instance, penciled a memorandum in his plantation manual: "Church members are privileged to dance on all holyday occasions; and the class-leader or deacon who may report them shall be reprimanded or punished at the discretion of the master."

A year earlier Charlie would have made sad mistakes here, but now he knew the private soldier's helplessness before the gold bars of commission, and his rage was white and dumb, as, with bursting eyes, he watched the officer pencil a blank.

An orator gesticulating before the public, resembles a painter who pencils outlines and designs upon a wall.

He must have waited till you slept; And not a single word he spoke, But pencilled o'er the panes and crept Away again before you woke.

He had pencilled on it some particulars relating to the diamonds, and laid it on the parcel before he closed up the safe.

The staff en masse wrote to the mistaken jailer, and at last we saw the prisoners return safe and sound, parodying in our presence with words and pencils the famous prisons of Silvio Pellico." [Footnote 1: Correa, op.

Iglesias, having an additional method of preservation, did not fail to pencil rapidly the wondrous scene.

As we sat at desert, Müller pulled out his book and pencilled a rapid but flattering sketch of the dining-room interior, developing a perspective as long as the Rue de Rivoli, and a mobilier at least equal in splendor to that of the Trois Frères.

] PENCILLED HAMBURG.This variety of the Hamburg fowl is of two colours, golden and silver, and is very minutely marked.

Against the reference to the portrait of Milton, in the postscript, some one, possibly Wordsworth, has pencilled a note, now only partially legible.

" Allerdyke gave one glance at the carda plain bit of pasteboard on which one word had been hastily pencilled CHETTLE.

With the most cheerful complacency the military authorities blue-pencilled their despatches to their governments.

18 collocations for  pencilled