2271 examples of pencil in sentences

Islands laid down in pencil, with the latitude and longitude in figures!

Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel.

The next five years were spent partly in Frankfort and partly in Wetzlar, partly in the forced exercise of his profession, but chiefly in literary labors and the use of the pencil, which for a time disputed with the pen the devotion of the poet-artist.

But what the pencil, had it been the pencil of the greatest master, could never glean from scenes like these, what art could never grasp, what words can never formulate, the heart of the boy then imbibed, assimilated, resolved in his innermost being.

But what the pencil, had it been the pencil of the greatest master, could never glean from scenes like these, what art could never grasp, what words can never formulate, the heart of the boy then imbibed, assimilated, resolved in his innermost being.

A large Direct-vision Spectroscope has been quite recently made by Mr Hilger under Mr Christie's direction on a new plan, in which either great dispersion or great purity of spectrum is obtained by the use of 'Half-prisms,' according as the incident pencil falls first on the perpendicular or on the oblique face.

I owe to the pencil of a gifted lady this sketch of the animal in repose, which is as perfect as it is, I believe, unique. {91c} Synetheres. {93a} Helias Eurypyga. {93b} Stedman's Surinam, vol.

On opening the envelope, however, I found that it contained a card on which was written in French and in pencil: 'My dear confrere,Tell nobody in the world, and particularly no newspaper, that I am in London.

It had his observations in pencil, and it seems Aberdeen sends all his proposed despatches to him and alters them at his suggestion.

I have known one of the most energetic and efficient business men in Peru, a highly respected gentleman in a mountain city, so to dislike being obliged to carry a rolled and unmounted photograph, little larger than a lead pencil, that he sent for a cargador, an Indian porter, to bear it for him!

He 'ad found a dirty old envelope on the floor, and with a bit o' lead pencil he wrote me a letter on the back of one o' the bills, telling me all his troubles, and asking me to bring some clothes and rescue 'im.

I, who have seen this sight, am not foolish enough to undertake to put it down with pencil on paper.

"I shall study like all artistswith pencil and paper.

At last he threw down his drawing and said to the lily: "You are too beautiful to draw with a pencil.

[Footnote: The words "within Three Months " were substituted for "immediately," at Mr. Moore's requestand they appear in pencil, in his own handwriting, upon the original draft of the deed, which is still in existence.

The sea was dazzling ultra-marine, with a purple lustre; every crag and notch of the mountains across the bay, every shade of brown or gray, or the green of grassy patches, was drawn and tinted with a pencil so exquisitely delicate as almost to destroy the perspective.

She was curled up, with pencil and pad, in an easy-chair of such generous dimensions that it made her seem more delicate and fragile than she really was.

" "Yes, I have, thank you," he answered, and began moodily to sharpen a lead-pencil.

He was too absorbed in his pencil-sharpening and in thinking thoughts far away from both pencil-sharpening and Greek history.

He was too absorbed in his pencil-sharpening and in thinking thoughts far away from both pencil-sharpening and Greek history.

He put the pencil down, closed the knife with a snap, and returned to his blank staring at the blackboard.

And Romney's graceful pencil flow, That Nature's look benign pourtrays[B], When to her infant Shakspeare's gaze

Or whether have the world discern'd The tricks by which my fame was earn'd; That, lacking in my pencil skill, I made my tongue its office fill: That, marking (as for love of truth)

No foolish pride, no narrow rule Enslav'd his soul; from every School, Whatever fair, whatever grand, His pencil, like a potent wand, Transfusing, bade his canvass grace.

She smiled, nodded, as she tapped a pencil over the very handsome totals.

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