ELFINLOCKS takes up his pencil, and lo!

"What elsedon't all speak at once?" asked Frank, holding a pencil ready.

Just as they begin to sharpen their pencils, presto!

" She flushed and paled with the struggle of the moment, then a beautiful calm came over her face; she laid down her pencil and, quietly dropping her hands in her lap, she turned to him with a smile that might have disarmed an angrier manit was full of tenderness, though it was shadowed by pain.

Testelin took the pencil, went up to the placard, and wrote his name beneath mine, then he gave the pencil to Gambon, who in turn wrote his name beneath that of Testelin.

Though the woman who had led me there endeavored to prevent it, I handed her the pencil, and placed the paper on the table for her to write.

and Randal dropped his pencil, while the girls sprang up in dismay.

He requested three things of Sir Joshua Reynolds:To forgive him thirty pounds which he had borrowed of him; to read the Bible; and never to use his pencil on a Sunday.

Slowly she counted seven hundred, then with a sudden impulse seized her pencil and wrote each of the seven words five times more to be "sure they were all right.

The top of that tony pencil-case, hey?" The Colonel produced his gold pencil, watched Mac heat the wax, drop it into the neck of the demijohn, and apply the initialled end of the Colonel's property.

Set the doll standing on a bit of paper, and draw a pencil all round her foot with the point close to it on the paper.

"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 have hesitated about receiving it because I had begun to despair of ever being able to touch the pencil again.

" "And that amendment?" Wingate picked up a newspaper and glanced at it, pulled a heavy gold pencil from his chain and made a few calculations.

" Mr. Travers took them and, re-lighting his pipe, smoked in silence, with various side glances at his companion as that enthusiast sucked his pencil and sat twisting in the agonies of composition.

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!

It requires an extremely delicate pencil to sketch such a character, and even then, a hundred trials might result in failing to seize upon its most vivid lights and shades and bring out its best points.

Allegory does not inspire the great American pencil.

Have you got a pencil?' As if dully hypnotised, he took out a pencil and notebook.

"Well, we don't want no shoelacers, nor lead pencils, nor nuffin!

In such plight you chew your pencil as though it were stuff to feed your brain.

During the deliberation in the Rue Popincourt, at which I had just presided, Baudin had lent me his pencil to jot down some names.

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

Well, then, I can; And I shall find a pencil for ye, sir. BOY.

Look at Ben-Zayb, him with the face of a friar, who's carrying a pencil and a roll of paper in his hand.