But from that simple question, rose up the Daguerreian art; an art which fixes upon metallic plates, upon paper, the shadow of a man, of palace and cottage, of mountain and field, giving thus a picture ten thousand times truer to nature than the pencil of the cunningest artist.

It is so nice and strengthening to reflect that, as the minister preaches piety, and you practice poetry, (with a pencil in the prayer-book,) you set an example to the rising generation.

Mark, too, how grandly the banners wave as the wind is deflected against their sides, and how trimly each is attached to the very summit of its peak, like a streamer at a masthead; how smooth and silky they are in texture, and how finely their fading fringes are penciled on the azure sky.

I KNEW HE'D BREAK MY PENCIL WITH HIS INFERNAL JAW-SMASHERS!"

"When can you give me these addresses?" Mrs. Morris smiled again, and, taking a piece of paper and a pencil from her work basket, wrote a few lines and handed them to Mrs. Montague.

"Oh, well," muttered Dan, picking up a pencil for the third time, "Dave and I each have our own styles of fights, just now.

I find that last word in my hasty note penciled at the time, and can think of no other that expresses the effect half so well.

but take the pencil to thy hand, And paint what all believe who own thy genial land.

It was evening, and I could no longer see to draw, though pencillings of light still fell on the pavement through the larger windows, whose colors were softened like those of the lunar rainbow; and still the edges of the stalls were gilded with the last gleams of sunset, though the seats were filled already with those phantoms which twilight seems to create in such a place.

The ice thawed rapidly; and one evening it split up altogether, when Bracebridge, who was sitting drawing by Lancelot's sofa, instead of amusing himself with the ladies below, suddenly threw his pencil into the fire, and broke out, a propos de rien 'What a strange pair we are, Smith!

When they wanted to look at that he ran the pencil through it and wrote something else on the other side of the fly-leaf, at which they all laughed uproariously.

The silence for a long time was complete, broken only by the rapid running of the pencil over the rough surface of the paper.

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

With an air of pride, she placed the pencil across the outstretched hands of the ivory suppliant, asking the Boy in dumb-show, was not this a pen-rest that might be trusted to melt the heart of the Holy Father?

He pulled a sheet of note-paper and a pencil out of his pocket and wrote the following draft:"There are in the famine camps in my area some toothless old people who cannot eat the ordinary ration.

Here is Mr. Fulk Ephrinell, dressed this morning just as he was dressed yesterdayanddetail to notewith a pencil behind the lobe of his left ear, for he has just been making out an account for his New York house.

Moussa smiled broadly upon his erstwhile contemptuous and insulting enemy, and began to consider the possibilities of a long and well-pointed lead-pencil as a means of vengeance.

COLOURThe colour should be black and tan or black grizzle and tan, free from black pencilling on toes.

Hold a thin wooden rod or pencil about a foot from the eyes and look at a distant object.

They write with a pencil like that used by our painters, and in one figure they comprehend many letters, forming one word.

I should fancy that something more like a pencil than a pen, but with a finer point than that of the finest pencil, was employed in the writing.

He felt a pencil under his fingers.

At the end of a fortnight or more, after redoubled exertions of Mediumistic power, to which was added the combined Spiritualistic power of the Medium's entire family circle, the exciting announcement was made to us that the fragment of slate pencil within the slates could no longer be heard to rattle, and that presumably the Spirits had written a message for us.

In order to seize the fragment of pencil without awakening suspicion, while holding the slate under the table, the slate is constantly brought out to see whether or not the Spirits have written an answer.

"Go ahead," he commanded, wetting his pencil between his lips.