Is it not clear that there is just as much of the
pencil left as usually follows the Johann?.
But he persevered for months, at such times as he was able to come to the cabin, until at last by repeated experimenting he found a position in which to hold the
pencil that best permitted him to guide and control it, so that at last he could roughly reproduce any of the little bugs.
Betteredge's blunt
pencil followed me conscientiously, word by word.
Towards midnight she began to wander in her speech, and after that it gradually set in that she said innumerable times in a low solemn voice, "What have I done!" And then, "When she first came, I meant to save her from misery like mine." And then, "Take the
pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her!'" She never changed the order of these three sentences, but she sometimes left out a word in one or other of them; never putting in another word, but always leaving a blank and going on to the next word.
"But, Harriet, is it necessary to burn the courtplaister?I have not a word to say for the bit of old
pencil, but the courtplaister might be useful."
One prisoner only set me and my
pencil successfully at defiance.
I'll give them work to do, and I'll make them so full of the very joy of doing it that they won't have TIME to look at their neighbors' woodboxes!" And he picked up his sermon notes, tore straight through the sheets, and cast them from him, so that on one side of his chair lay "But woe unto you," and on the other, "scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!" while across the smooth white paper before him his
pencil fairly flew--after first drawing one black line through Matthew twenty-third; 13--14 and 23."
"Well, this
pencil was a lead-pencil, consequently hard; so it marked in black upon the first sheet, and in white upon the second."
Leaving my sketch-book and
pencil on the table of the summer-house, I proposed to my mother to cross a little wooden bridge which spanned the stream, below the fall, and to see how the landscape looked from a new point of view.
Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the
pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
One day, on entering the ward, Philip noticed that Athelny,
pencil in hand, was reading a book.
Lend us a
pencil, please -- you won't be angry, will you?
