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Sentence Examples Once the cabinets are marked lightly in pencil, use an awl or a center punch to create an indentation at the desired spot. Watchers are notorious pencil sharpeners, ribbon changers, plant waterers, home repairers and abhorrers of messy rooms or messy pages. He saw Stella, blushed and twirled his hair around with a pencil, and then about-turned sharpish back out of the room. A quadriplegic artist, he creates his detailed sketches using a pencil inserted into a custom-made mouthpiece. It is quality stuff, ranging from huge abstracts to delicate pencil drawings. Over the years Sol has used pencil, artist's crayon, Crayola crayons, chalk lines, ink washes and, as in our case, acrylic paint. People buy old-fashioned sad-irons to use as bookends or doorstops, and a handsome jam pot can become a pencil holder. Tracing along the lower waterline and around the inner corners of my eyes, I applied the pencil as close to my eyeball as possible. I line my waterline with a black pencil, and then use gold as a highlight along my lower lash line. He would play with his lip ring, roll his pencil around on the desk, jiggle his knees and shake his head to the tune in his head. Julie handed me a large piece of paper divided into four parts and a pack of pencil crayons. First remove several stems about the thickness of a pencil from the shrub and trim them to a length of around 30 cm just below a leaf joint. Vicki sighed and traced his phone number in her journal with her mechanical pencil. Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling. This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink. So roll up for your tax cut, folks, and pencil in a trip to the ballot box this year. Tutors either speak using headphones or use a whiteboard and digital pencil so that one side can see what the other is writing. As the pencil thin model draped in a body hugging kebaya walked in, the audience let out a collective cry. David bent over his notebook, making a few aimless strokes with his much-used pencil. Sometimes the watercolor strokes and the pencil lines run in the same direction, and sometimes they are perpendicular. Show More Sentences Somehow they look like the artist wanted to save on color and pencil strokes. Has all this material been so bland or so often revisited it wasn't worth a few strokes of the pencil? Look closely at the pencil strokes in this drawing and you will not see one faltering line. The pulled out the drawings for the palace and scrutinized every pencil stroke. Outline the opening in pencil and cut it out with a keyhole saw or circle cutter. Tragically, many of these kids claim they have been using keyboards and keypads for so long, the idea of writing with a pencil scares them silly. Another tale recounts that aiguillettes originated with the cord and pencil worn by generals and staff officers for writing dispatches. It's as if the screenwriters have gone through the Gospels with a blue pencil, trying to recast the words so that we can accept them. When I die those atoms will carry on combining and recombining, and I may find myself part of a pencil, a penguin, a nurse or a nebula. With no need for locomotion, the arms and legs withered into pencil thin stumps. All you need to bring with you is a working knowledge of the language in which you intend to write, a pad and a pencil. Logan, still smiling humorously at him, took out a piece of paper and pencil and wrote down everything he asked for and more. I lay there, watching discreetly, pencil firmly in hand, but not writing a single word. Longson walked up, took a pencil, and wrote down a name on the piece of paper, folded it, and handed it to Bradley. I remember a girl I was at school with stabbing me with a lead pencil when I was about seven. The other two dutifully got out pencil and paper and wrote numbers one to ten down the side. A pencil company never worries about there being a graphite shortage or a cedar shortage or a shortage of yellow lacquer. Next, using the yardstick as a guide, pencil as many straight lines as you need for your quote. The show includes landscapes and portraits, red chalk and lead pencil, as well as drawings and sketches. I lined my upper and lower lash line with a chocolate brown eyeliner pencil. Show More Sentences I wrote in secret, on lined yellow pads, in pencil, in a Laundromat, where I felt no one was watching. The sliding motion of those sheets over each other gives pencil lead its properties. The transfer was made by first rubbing the back of their sketch with pencil lead. Then I rubbed my lips, my beard, and my hands with pencil lead, and went to bed. Indeed, there's no way of showing the lead in your pencil quite like a forced merger. A third term with a decent majority is really going to put lead in his pencil. I gathered snake was one of those foods thought to put lead in the old pencil. An orthopedic surgeon at our facility wants to use an ordinary lead pencil to mark bone during a surgical procedure. Preparatory work is done outdoors where she uses conte, gouache, pencil and wax resist. Rian grabbed a pencil, and wrote down a quick response, and tossed the piece of paper back to her. He had a few legal pads, a few pens, a pencil, and a paper folder for each subject. Finally, after writing her last answer, she put her pencil down and massaged her temples. To perform the operation with pencil and paper one must start with the million or so numbers among which the solution is known to lie. Reaching for a new pencil to replace the one I've just snapped in frustration, I hear the ring of my cell phone. She handed the pencil and pad to Aubrey, who scribbled something quickly and ripped the paper out of the pad. Her hair, tied at the back with a pencil, is flecked with the odd strand of grey and, of course, there are lines on her face. It's available in a flat flake, a powder with an applicator or in pencil form. Define your eyes with pencil liner and enhance your mouth with a darker or brighter lipstick than usual. Details are achieved by applying either direct line work with the conte or ebony pencil, and little or no turpenoid to diffuse it. For projects that require a sketch quality, he does all of the line work in pencil. Show More Sentences There follows page after page of pencil sketches showing how they think it will look from miles around. Each case has been filled with much needed resources for the children including pens, pencils, rubbers, rulers and pencil sharpeners. You have to rummage around in it for ages trying to find a rubber or pencil sharpener. My son's pencil case contains a pencil, a ruler, pencil sharpener and a rubber. She believed that she got the lead poisoning when a sharp pencil was poked into her cheek. Then, with a felt-tipped pen or sharp pencil, mark the lag screw holes that were drilled in the ledger on the wail. Use a rule and a sharp pencil and move rule and pencil along the wall to give a pencil line on the paper. I then showed them how to use a white pencil to trace circles of various sizes and straight lines with rulers. Cut along the inside pencil line with your sabre saw while another person supports it from below. Her hand moved over the pencil she was drawing with and placed it in her black saddlebag, and flung it over her head onto her shoulder. It consisted of a video of a little girl's hand clasping a pencil and writing on a tablet. In her arms was a writing tablet and a pencil, looking like they were about to fly out of her hands at any moment. For this hike, you will need field guides and animal track guides, magnifying glasses and binoculars, and pencil and paper. I tapped my mechanical pencil against my desk and sighed deeply, glancing at the clock from the corner of my eye. She absently tapped her artistry pencil on the sketch paper as she stared out onto the whitened garden with unseeing eyes. The notebooks, pens, folders, and pencil cases were all glossy, nicely designed, and in a teenage-friendly palette of baby pinks and blues. Any reader who doesn't itch to pick up a pencil at this point is perhaps backing the wrong horse. Now place the second board, butted at right angles to the first, and transfer its profile onto the end of the first board with a pencil. At Yumeta, pencil sketches are scanned into a computer, then a technician adds color digitally. They are written in pencil on earlier paper types, apparently scavenged from previous works. Show More Sentences Sit down with a pencil and paper, and list everything you do on a typical school day, breaking it down hour by hour. There's nothing worse than pulling a hard pencil eyeliner across the tender skin of the eyelid. This is celebrated by a playful ritual in which the baby is given a number of gifts, such as a pencil and a pair of scissors. To backtrack to actually reconstructing the piece, I usually start on good old-fashioned manuscript paper with a pencil. Players have to bring their own scrabble sets, tiles in cloth bags and also a pen or pencil for score keeping. Referendums and elections should be held with plain old paper ballots, marked by voters with a sturdy pencil. A scribbly pencil line cut through the clumps of paint or twisted around the perimeter. Smear it over the entire eyelid with your fingertips, then add black mascara and eye pencil along the upper lash line. Tuition includes pencil, pastel, oil and other painting techniques as well as sculpturing. Have extra masking tape in several widths available along with scissors, a pencil and several rags to clean up spills. With the countertop face-up, apply masking tape over the cut area and pencil a cut line on the tape. Walking through the Louvre I saw numerous artists with pencil and paper in hand, sketching the great masterpieces. His pencil went flying and left a thick, black line across the work he'd been doing. During the fourth year the child learns to cut with scissors and to thread beads, develops a mature pencil grasp, and learns to draw. She scribbled answers hard on the paper, constantly breaking the lead of her mechanical pencil. I turned in my seat to see her standing by the pencil sharpener, biding her time by pretending to sharpen her mechanical pencil. There was a ring around a mechanical pencil and a simple note dangled from it. He clicked the end of his mechanical pencil and lay the tip against the paper. He stood back up and grabbed an extra mechanical pencil off he top shelf, putting it in his pocket. Sora pursed his lips in thought, tapping his mechanical pencil on the page. Show More Sentences Roark wearily turned through sheaves of line drawings and pencil sketches spread on the table in front of them. Most oil paintings and pencil sketches portrayed women, classical dancers and children in different perspectives. I finished the drawing I was sketching and placed my pencil back into the exterior of the desk. Eventually the policeman produced a pencil and paper and began to sketch something at his desk. The fine adjustment mechanism on a beam compass makes distance transfers quicker and more precise than with a ruler and pencil alone. I put the pen back in my box with a mental note to try it again one day when I'm feeling adventurous, and took up a pencil instead. Flipping up the cover of the sketchbook, Kenny took out his mechanical pencil and looked for something or someone to draw, preferably nothing that moved. Draw a line with a pencil and a ruler, and the computer registers it. Andrew nodded, tore a page out of the sketch book in his pocket and scratched out his number with a stumpy pencil hooked in the books ring binder. The last ten minutes were silent broken only by the scratch of a pencil. He could hear the scratch of her pencil, and the air moving past the car. First, we drew sunflowers on the inked scratchboard with pencil. Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery. Children invented pencil toppers in the same way they will dress clothespins, shoes, or hair curlers, detail dust pans, and lend sticker eyes to a fly swatter. When our firstborn, Nate, started walking, she tacked a cloth tape to the inside wall of our closet and measured his progress against the pencil marks she made on the wall. A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen. Rendered only somewhat individual by almost insignificant pencil numbers along the edges, the rows and columns form a visually disturbing base latticework. The silhouette was classic Christopher Bailey, with coat dresses, wraps and pencil skirts predominating. Claret lovers will enthuse over this traditional style that delivers blackfruits, pencil shavings, cigar boxes threaded with ripe tannins, all backed by firm acidity. Rosa picked up a pencil and began to sketch what she had seen. Show More Sentences He taught me how to edit tape without marking it with a grease pencil. Now we really will see if Gordon has any lead in his pencil. Photo 1 shows how to scribe a line with just a carpenter's pencil. The bar staff are dressed in school uniform with prefect badges and kohl pencil freckles and the clientele are sipping shrimp flavored vodka shooters. He pulled one out and then took a mechanical pencil from his desk. If the annual report did not include the CEO's report, management's discussion or multi-year summary, then you will need to get out your pencil, paper and calculator. While the patient looked at each tool, the data collector read the words on each VAS and provided a pencil or pen for the patient to mark on the scale. I got a yellow legal pad and a pencil and began to scribble. To portray the harsher reality produced by the war, Beckmann switched from the soft pencil he had previously used to a reed pen, giving him a harder, more precise line. Their teacher would beat time with her pencil on the music rack. She poised her pencil above the paper and waited for the signal to begin writing. And then one pencil drawing of my face, and one pencil drawing of the Genie from Aladdin. The designer focused on classic sportswear cuts with fitted blazers, belted coats, and pencil skirts. Many of the looks, like a bodice worn with a figure-hugging pencil skirt, remained seductive and sexy despite its muted colors. Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect. I had to fill it in with an eyebrow pencil a little bit so that we could read it on camera. Three limpid watercolors reveal their development through a few washes applied to a pencil or ink line drawing, providing more graphic than chromatic complexity. To make your eyes look bigger, use a peach pencil on your waterline. Girls were fully made up, puffy red unglossed lips, stilettos, pencil skirts and long straight hair in ponytails with quiffs or short curled just so. I had a clipboard with a yellow piece of paper on it and a pencil over my ear. Show More Sentences Where I used to work as a public servant I had a mechanical pencil they gave me that had an eraser receptacle on the end of it that you could refill. First, find a lip liner pencil in the same color or tone as your lipstick. If you're not absolutely sure about your own face shape, try using this quick and simple method, take an old lip liner or eye pencil and sit in front of a mirror. On the beach, go for pencil eye liners rather than powdery eye products. Her natural eyebrows had thinned with age, but they were darkened and thickened with great black pencil lines which jutted down the sides of her face. The first look that copping sent out was an elegant pencil silhouette for an imaginary woman named Catherine. Although the objects were mostly slick and smooth, most chose the cold-press so they could scumble the color over the toothy surface with a beveled pencil. On the table were a pocket portfolio and a mechanical pencil. Periodically Ian kept a diary, each entry scribbled in pencil. When I returned to visit Norman, he was in the ICU, pencil in hand, editing some text. But it only takes five minutes and a pencil stroke to go and vote. They must have used a very sharp pencil to draw that one up. I caved in, bought a book, and even bought a pencil and a rubber. She smiled as she clipped her mechanical pencil to the cover. She pulled out a pencil and some sheets of blank manuscript paper. Once you've decided on a shape, make short, light, upward feathery strokes with a soft, well-sharpened pencil to replicate the natural brow hairs. The avid mushroom-pickers who encounter a strange figure prostrate on the ground, holding a pencil and manuscript paper in his hands, are startled. Jen grinned and she tapped her sharp pencil on the piece of paper. And then she took a sharp pencil and began making light, very fine lines. I went through the gym doors and found myself standing in a large gym with the red scorebook in one hand and my lucky neon pink pencil in the other, just looking around. Show More Sentences The floor was divided into 25 rectangular squares by pencil lines. The latest Hoyle product is Hoyle Crosswords, your basic paper and pencil word game that you commonly find each and every day in your local newspaper. The possessors of orchids may be able to reproduce the process with a pencil, small paintbrush, or other similar device. And for Italian sportswear giant MaxMara, the cornerstone of the show was a crisp khaki safari jacket shown over a pencil skirt. Anna decided to wear a black pencil skirt with her blue blouse that day to work. Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year. He puggled around in the oil cavity with his little lead pencil until it slipped out of his fingers and went down into the oil cavity. Viewing the original documents the next day, Fenton spotted what looked like pencil marks beneath the signature on one of them. Other challenges included tangoing in pencil skirts, punting in blazers and even skydiving in catsuits. Slim and elegant nude pumps with snake pencil heels by Alexandre Birman are best sellers at Addison Craig. After all pencil work has been technically executed, the students use a ruling pen to ink their designs. There is just one portrait, Joyce Woodward's pencil impression of Edith Turner, which is characterful and successful. One wall of the show is hung with a series of pencil sketches of individual male and female figures, naturalistically rendered. For our interview, she looks stunning in a one-piece with little capelet sleeves, a pencil skirt that shows off a narrow waist and a belt. A student can use a virtual pencil on a side tool bar to write out a question. Perfect with capri pants and pumps and equally lovely with a pencil skirt for a more formal look. In Black Kites 1997, Orozco used a graphite pencil to draw a geometric pattern on a human skull. Portraits by Leon Bakst in oil and in pencil and ink by Valentine Gross and Jean Cocteau reveal radically different views. Lambchop at The Sage Gateshead SO quiet are Lambchop that the lead in my pencil scraping out these words drowned out the piano for a while. Variety is key with separates ranging from t-shirts to pencil skirts, and includes kurtas and kaftans. Show More Sentences Use the same black eyeshadow under the eye and then use a black kohl pencil to give it that smudgier, smouldering look. How would that yellow number 2 pencil look as an ornament, inserted through a pierced ear-lobe or nasal septum? Patriotic key ring Use it to decorate a backpack or pencil case, or even to hold some keys. Use a pencil instead of a pen so you can erase your mistakes. The proper way to use it is to annoint the edge of the lower lid with a small pencil, dipped in the salve, every night at bedtime. The star is Jorge Negrete, a tall baritone with a pencil mustache who appeared as a singing charro in a few dozen ranchero musicals. This will pull charcoal chaulk or pencil particles from the paper up to the polyester. I'm headed back down the elevator, having suppressed the impulse to buy an Eiffel Tower table lamp or pencil sharpener. These brushes will keep you from ruining your work by brushing away erasings with your hand and smearing your pencil work. His fastidious nature had been evident in his careful snipping of a customer's hair and now he guided his pencil with the same adroitness. The locally mined graphite led to the development of the pencil industry, especially around Keswick. Compact a tennis ball sized sample taken at moling depth by hand, then push a pencil through. As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil. Contrary to popular belief, pencil leads in wooden pencils have never been made from lead. You may prefer to write in pencil and a supply of good number 2s will delight you. At one time the memory consisted of a user making grease pencil marks on the radar screen and then calculating the speed using a slide rule. Delineation of jobs was rigid and communication would be through the means of coloured slips of paper written on in indelible pencil. It is also used for tool handles and cutlery, such as chopsticks, toothpicks, and other utensils, like the wooden spoon and pencil. One of the exhibits is what is claimed to be the world's largest coloured pencil. Most pencil cores are made of graphite mixed with a clay binder which leaves grey or black marks that can be easily erased. Show More Sentences Other types of pencil core are less widely used, such as charcoal pencils, which are mainly used by artists for drawing and sketching. The most common type of pencil casing is of thin wood, usually hexagonal in section but sometimes cylindrical, permanently bonded to the core. To use the pencil, the casing must be carved or peeled off to expose the working end of the core as a sharp point. France was also unable to import the inferior German graphite pencil substitute. One of those was Eberhard Faber of New York, who became the leader in pencil production. On 30 March 1858, Hymen Lipman received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil. The use of an extender also has the advantage that the pencil does not appreciably change its heft as it wears down. Residual graphite from a pencil stick is not poisonous, and graphite is harmless if consumed. The lead of the pencil is a mix of finely ground graphite and clay powders. Each pencil has a shoulder cut on one end of the pencil to allow for a metal ferrule to be secured onto the wood. A rubber plug is then inserted into the ferrule for a functioning eraser on the end of the pencil. This designation might have been first used in the early 20th century by Brookman, an English pencil maker. So while a full beard and moustache show a retrosexual alpha male, the pencil moustache can actually send out mixed signals. Try creating your own collages, pencil holders, posters, throw pillows, knotted blankets, and more. In the aquarium, children can explore, touch tanks filled with starfish and pencil urchins, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design. Store your rollerballs in this Muji PVC pencil case made from a basketball. Perfect for popping in your handbag for last-minute touch-ups, this chunky pencil combines liner and lippy in one. For machine processing, a roving is about the width of a pencil. Results are written on the bare sheet metal with a grease pencil. Show More Sentences I said, never clip a dog's nails without a styptic pencil handy. Keswick's history throughout the 20th century was one of increasing reliance on tourism, the pencil industry being the second largest source of employment. Make a small pencil mark where the flame from each tealight will sit. In addition, around that time the Keswick pencil factories had switched to making pencil pigments out of the familiar combination of clay powder and graphite powder. Even graphite pencil marks on aluminium parts may facilitate corrosion. Leeks can be bunched and harvested early when they are about the size of a finger or pencil, or they can be thinned and allowed to grow to a much larger mature size. I thought it would be just me and a pencil in a red bathysphere. The likes of Louis Vuitton and Prada embraced 1950s nostalgia with wasp-waisted circle skirts or prim and proper pencil skirts, along with corset-style tops. Anastasia's Brow Fix is a wax pencil that keeps brows in place. Their version was a flat, oval, more compact type of pencil. On duty Leenia wears a white laboratory coat with big pockets stuffed with a scale, pencil, eraser, scissors, tape measure, red and blue pens, plus a tourniquet. The use of pencil sketches on location, as the foundation for later finished paintings, formed the basis of Turner's essential working style for his whole career. In the early 20th century supplies of Red Cedar were dwindling so that pencil manufacturers were forced to recycle the wood from cedar fences and barns to maintain supply. Oil, silver, goldbronze paint and pencil on canvas, 140.5 x 140 cm. An alpha helix, like scotch tape wrapped around a pencil to form a tube, is a common shape seen in proteins, one of the main classes of biological molecules. The nine pencil drawings by Welsh engineer Hugh Iorys Hughes were estimated to fetch 40,000 to 80,000 US dollars at Bonhams' New York saleroom on Tuesday. She twirled the pencil through her fingers with impressive dexterity. The resulting strings are dipped in oil or molten wax, which seeps into the tiny holes of the material and allows for the smooth writing ability of the pencil. For example, will the student be seated in a study carrel, at the front of the room, away from the distractions of the pencil sharpener or pets in the room? In his sixty years of artistic creation, Chughtai produced nearly 2000 watercolors, thousands of pencil sketches, and nearly 300 etchings and aquatints. Show More Sentences It includes a student cartridge pen, lightweight 128mm safety scissors, rubber-tipped left-handed pencil, flexible container pencil sharpener and 17cm left-handed ruler. In India, the most common pencil colour scheme was dark red with black lines, and pencils with a large number of colour schemes are produced by various companies. It will be necessary to mark the outside circumference of the cylinder with pen or pencil, so permanently cover this area with a sheet of markable paper if it needs it. It's belted waists and pencil skirts again, which means the ghastly panty-girdles and roll-ons have returned, only this time they're called control knickers. Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled electric pencil sharpeners, unplug them from the outlet and contact Amax for a free replacement unit. There are many collectors of writing implements and some rather more specialised collectors of pencil sharpeners, as well as collectors of advertising memorabilia. Examples from Classical Literature He handed me a note written in pencil on a leaf from Miss Mannersley's sketchbook. For field memoranda I advise the use of a stylographic pen, as pencil is apt to rub and efface in time by the motions of the body. And she picked up her eyebrow pencil again and did a little more frescoing. The pencil flash, mercifully, still rested in a fold of his shoulder joint fabric. A piece of wood can then be glued on to the strawboard along the pencil line at the back and another at the end. The striper should provide himself with a dust-proof metal box in which to store his pencil equipment. In the MS. there is some erasure in pencil of which I have taken no notice. Also she's a home-grown siren that works without the aid of a lip-stick, permanent wave, or an eyebrow pencil. In the gaslit kitchen, surrounded by steaming linen, Victoria wrote a little feverish note in pencil. I put the pencil in the sharpener, gave it two or three turns, and out it came with the point nicely rounded and sharpened. Moriarty was muttering to himself, figuring with slide rule, pencil and paper. Then with a small brush, and straight-edge for a guide, trace over the pencil lines with white lead. The pencil equipment is properly a matter of the first concern to the striper. The blood brother of the defense screen, its energies concentrated into a pencil of radiation. When the paper was removed the beeswax retained the marks of the lead pencil. Many artists attempted to fix that glance and that smile with pencil or burin, but how few were successful! When all was ready, he drew some arabesque forms with his pencil on the board. I picked out a faint lavender scent, and then bought some lipstick, mascara, and eyebrow pencil. In practicing the featherstitch draw a pencil line on your cloth as a guide. At the nearer one sat a dyspeptic man of middle age waving a heavy pencil above a galley proof. Show More Sentences She sighed and struggled with thoughts and pencil, which she gnawed at both ends. Then he sighed, picked up his pencil and turned again to the drawing of the gull. I have noticed in some a very false idea existing with regard to draughting in a picture with pencil before using the pen and ink. I had counted on watching Herb by his own black light pencil, and he was working in darkness. He dug out a slide rule and a pencil and pad and sat down with his back to the back of the pilot's seat, under the light. Now take of the icing sugar and fill your paper funnel as if for cake icing, and overline the pencil marks you made on the stone. The other day at French Campbell went up to colly and asked him what was wrong with les tables it had a pencil cross on it. He read with pencil in hand, and he had an elaborate system of marking a book. Rajcik finished the computation he was working on and gnawed thoughtfully at his pencil. The cashier was confident that his initials in blue pencil on the counterfoil were genuine. The pencil may be made quite attractive by covering it with a strip of crepe paper in some bright color. Passing from the bloom of Nature, we complete our circuit with that which springs from the pencil, the chisel and the burin. With a sharp pencil mark off the required length, starting from the dead center end. When the deaf-and-dumb book agent wrote something on a pencil pad and pushed it toward him, he replied in kind. What, has not the pencil been long enough and too long consecrated to debauchery and vice? Again his pencil moved, and I knew he was attempting to delineate her features. This scene, at once so simple and so singular, was worthy the pencil of Callot. You wrote them in the prison at Venice, in pencil, in a child's exercise book. After supper, he marked seventeen sets of papers desultorily in red pencil, then got up to look for the baby book. Handy Sam, with one foot up on the table and a pencil between his toes, was doodling self-consciously on a paper napkin. Show More Sentences The drawing may be made first with a soft lead pencil, using the camera lucida or other optical aids to correct delineation. The next day take a foot rule and a sharp pencil and mark the clay sheet into bricks, two inches long by an inch wide. Lila had withdrawn her hand under the pretext of picking up a case knife to sharpen her pencil. I procured also from the parish of Pithoea some pencil lead, or lead-like mica which blackens the fingers. Taking her writing-block and a pencil from her dispatch case, she hastily scribbled a note. Your pencil outline holds the same relation to your chalk talk that the minister's notes hold to his sermon. She ran her fingers softly over the wrinkled hand, lifted away the idle pencil and drew his scratch pad toward her. My boy, you and I will get a slate and pencil before we go into such a chandlery operation! And I saw that the address, scrawled in pencil, was in Anthony's handwriting. With these words, he handed the pencil to the professor and returned to his seat. He regarded Verona's books, Babbitt's silver pencil, and flowers on the table as citified extravagances, and said so. In due time they reach, say the Isle of Wight, where they set the pencil of the seismometer at work. In the main Leech, on whose pencil the burden of social commentary fell, was a genial satirist of feminine foibles. Fred felt that each stroke of the pencil was a black mark against him. Find more words! 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