Among them lay the blotter that had been in the Book of Laws.
But, now, he had no need for guesses nor mirrors; and with a light laugh he laid the blotter aside.
Instantly blotter and portfolio were replaced, and she hurried to her boudoir for a mirror.
Here and there words and letters were missing or were very indistinct, but there could be no doubt that this was the blotter used by King Frederick when he wrote the decree the night before his death.
Why, even your Aunt Emily, when she bought you that delightful blotter .
Last year she gave a lot of happy thought to it, and decided in the middle of the night that a blotter was the one thing you wanted.
Yet it was not solid, because Willie could see the blotter through it.
I marked the direction on the blotter beneath the detector.
On the whiteblotter they found a long black line, tipped with an angle mark like an arrow-head.
Then Willie gave a little gasp of surprise as the spy straightened up and laid on the blotter beside the dollar a curious little thing like nothing Willie had ever seen.
Speechless with terror, she made a sudden snatch at the sheet in the blotter which she had already begun to tear out when his entrance disturbed her.
Suddenly something seemed to strike her and she stretched out her hand to open the great blotter of Nile-green leather, bordered with silver, when the telephone bell rang sharply out into the drawing-room.
He put one of the photographs upon a leaf of the blotter and compared them carefully.
He took the mirror in one hand, propping up the blotter with its back towards him, and looking intently into the glass.
Lady Attwill almost bounded back to the writing-table and put down the blotter upon it.
He smoothed it out, pulled theblotter closer towards him, and took from his pocket photographs of the famous letters in the case.
Then he took a small glass from his pocket and examined the photograph and the page of the blotter with that.
Helen, one of the strangest things that ever happened to me was that Mrs. Darien left in the blotter on her table a sealed letter addressed to me.
For a long time John McNabb spoke no word but sat staring at his desk, pecking at the blotter with his pencil.
When John McNabb received the message he grinned broadly, and for several minutes sat at his desk and stabbed at his blotter with his pencil point.
Aunt Jane sat down at her desk and folded her hands on the edge of the blotter and looked at the flowers.
She laid a blotter methodically across the smudge and closed the book and put it away.
An arrangement of wild flowers and grasses and a few books placed on a blotter on a typewriter table in front of an inexpensive india print may furnish a colorful spot in any schoolroom.
If you use the blotter you are dismayed to find that the blot spreads out as flat as if you were pressing a piece of glass against it.
A blotterwhich has one end in water soon becomes wet all over.
His aunt told him to lay a blotter on the candle grease and to press a hot iron on the blotter, or to put the blotter under his coat and the iron on top of the candle grease,--he was not quite sure which.
If you drop candle grease on your clothes, you can remove the grease by placing a blotter over it and pressing the blotter with a warm iron.
A warm iron and a blotterwill take candle grease out of your clothes.
Spread the remaining white paste of silver chlorid (AgCl) out over the blotter as well as you can.
If the sun is shining, put the blotter in the sunlight for 5 minutes.
In the middle of his blotter was a stack of papers his stenographer had laid there just before she went out.
He leaned his elbows on the cleared blotter and propped up his chin on his fists.
Yes, that she did--and she laid it on the blotter in the dining-room.
She walked straight into the little sitting-room, where Kitty Malone's letter lying on top of the blotter immediately attracted her attention.
He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the dupe.
He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there.
The following transactions are shown in the model set, but the blotteris omitted, all transactions being entered in the journal and cash book.
The sample page of theblotter described in Article 3 is sufficient to illustrate its use.
Kennedy was holding the brass blotter near the bust as he talked.
I, too, bent over and studied the marks on the bust and those Kennedy had made on the blotter to show Elaine.
The blotter could be taken out and a new one put in, you know.
You have to dry your paint brush on the blotter before painting stencil designs,” explained Jimsi, “otherwise the paint runs all over.
She asked for a bit of blotter and the little lame girl told her where to find it.
He hitched up Blotter and Little Gray on the new wagon and will drive back to dinner.
Blotter was a white horse with black spots on him, which made him look as if he had been used for a pen-wiper.
Blotter and Little Gray were not a very handsome team, but they were good gentle horses and the children loved them.
So he left Blotter and Little Gray standing in the field--they were never known to run away--and all went to a pleasant spot in the meadow and ate the luncheon which Mama Bryant had sent in the peach basket.
The Sergeant pulled theblotter toward him mechanically and dipped his pen.
The Sergeant made a few red lines in the blotter and resumed his reveries.
Who knows but that, like sergeants, theblotter may be sometimes mistaken?
Very often, you know, much may be learned from the blotter on a man's desk.
The holes in the blotter and the marks outlined upon the shelf coincided exactly.
Naturally, for I had planned the distance well, his finger-tips, white with the chalk he had unconsciously handled, touched the blue surface of the blotter now lying uppermost and left their marks there.
Tipping up the envelope, I scattered over the face of the blotter a few of the glistening particles I had collected from the place mentioned.
Instinctively, he withdrew his hand; whereupon I embraced the opportunity of turning the blotter over, uttering meanwhile the most profuse apologies.
The following is a simple but effective device to increase humidity: Roll an ordinary deskblotter into a cone about 8 inches in diameter at the base, and keep it constantly submerged for about one inch in a dish of water.
Dawson remained staring at his blotter when he finished, and there was complete silence for several seconds.
She got her blotter and pen from a shelf, brought it back to the toilet-table, picked up the chair in a very quiet and sensible way, as if she had never been on the stage in her life, and sat down to write.
I shall take your advice, dear,' she said, opening the blotter and placing a large sheet of paper in the right position.
