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For perhaps another hour we wandered onward, chatting quietly and comfortably on this and that matter, and on several occasions stopping while my companionwho is something of an artistmade rough sketches of striking bits of the wild scenery.
From a sketch by Anton von Werner, 1880.]
In the mean time I had to be content with photographs on my mind and sketches in my note-books.
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" We cannot better conclude our description than with a sketch from Sir Richard Phillips's "Morning's Walk to Kew."
Sketching with the hand of a master....
WAUGH'S. Norbreck: A Sketch on the Lancashire Coast.
Thomas Wilson, in his Arte of Rhetorique, gives a Theophrastian character sketch as an illustration of the figure descriptio.
The plot of the story was sketched at length, and in the brain of the writer it was complete; but no hand save his own could give it life and form: it must remain an unfinished work.
In his statement Sir Henry made it very clear that the issue was confined to the relations between the two Houses:"Let me point out that the plan which I have sketched to the House does not in the least preclude or prejudice any proposals which may be made for the reform of the House of Lords.
Miss Manning (who was the author of Flemish Interiors) helps to fill out Lamb's sketch into a full-length portrait.
It is more of a character sketch than a short story, the incidents and characters being bound together by a common relation to Rab.
I have been now several days loitering and sketching among the ruins, and I feel as if I could willingly wander for months beside these mournful relics, and draw inspiration from the lofty yet melancholy lore they teach.
I will bury his infamous sketches under the floor.
"What I have sketched before you," said Mr. Gandhi, "is the final possibility.
I made a little sketch near Contoocook Falls yesterday.
The fire, if such it could be called, ran with incredible rapidity along the seams between the planks, forward and aft, until the entire deck was sketched like a pyrotechnic display in thin, vivid lines of incandescence.
"My dear uncle," she says, "while Clive is sketching out of the window, let me write to you a line or two on his paper, though I know you like to hear no one speak but him.
And yet I cannot conclude this sketch without taking a parting glance of this brilliant but unfortunate man.
Monday, September 18.It was impossible to get our boats up the river yesterday, so I spent the day sketching amidst the most picturesque, but horribly smelly, part of the town; much quinine in the evening seemed desirable as a counterblast to possible malaria.
" I reminded him of his conversation with Napoleon, of which I knew by the sketch amongst his unpublished papers, which I had repeatedly urged him to give more in detail.
" She put the sketch behind her back.
From the amount thus allowed to Mr. Tompkins after deducting the sum paid him under the act of the present session and the moneys charged to his account there will remain a balance due him of $60,238.46, as appears by the sketch herewith communicated.
" In silence I turned the sketches over one by one, as a boy hurries through the pages of an evil book lest he be caught.
SIR, 'In some of your late Speculations, I find some Sketches towards an History of Clubs: But you seem to me to shew them in somewhat too ludicrous a Light.