Having arrived at this decision, he replaced his notebook in his coat pocket, knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and went to bed.

Let me give one example from a number entered in my notebooks of how officers at home exercised their authority.

Or, in your poverty, you run through the pages of a favorite volume, with a notebook for a sly theft to start you off.

" Rolfe took an official notebook from a breast pocket and proceeded to question the police-constable.

He put out his head and saw a man writing something in a notebook with a pencil by the light of a street-lamp.

He wanted to wake up in his own bed, stick to his habits, take his notebook to a coffee shop and keep at his writing.

So she tucked the notebook into a drawer of her desk, put out her light and got into bed.

Cousin Monty flitted unobtrusively to his tent, got on dry garments, fished another notebook out of his bag, and set out once more in quest of local color.

The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman. Edited from his notebooks by Mason Wade & illustrated by Maynard Dixon.

Savvy?" "Right," replied Lodge, entirely won over, and he settled himself on the grass, with the notebook on his knee and a stub of a pencil poised over it.

Wedderburn was a little quieter than usual, and Hill's face was hot all day, and his overcoat bulged with textbooks and notebooks against the last moment's revision.

" The heavy-shouldered man sat down and pulled the notebook toward him.

It was a hammer and a cold chisel tied together, with a leaf from a notebook under the string.

" I laid the open notebook before me and read out the first entry: "'Eight fifty-eight.