The Professor had done his breakfast, and was anxious to begin the sitting; so I took out my chalks and paper, and set to work at once--I seated on one pile of books and he on another.
While I was pointing my chalks Mr. Faulkner was walking up and down the room.
I accordingly worked on doggedly for more than an hour--then left off to point my chalks again, and to give my sitter a few minutes' rest.
Clean out of his age; chalksabove most of the parsons in a spiritual sense and chalks below most of them in the worldly.
Of course we had the splendid drawings of winged things made by our Flying Lodger, but you cannot look at pictures all day long, however many coloured chalks they are drawn with, and however fond you may be of them.
The end--for that day--was our getting the top of a cardboard box and printing on it the following lines in as many different coloured chalks as we happened to have with us.
I accordingly worked on doggedly for more than an hour; then left off to point my chalks again, and to give my sitter a few minutes' rest.
I have known a good many cool things in my time; but this by long chalks is the coolest.
He applied himself to the copying of models of all sorts, most frequently red chalks by Boucher and plaster casts of animals, plants, and flowers.
At the Petite Ecole they made us copy the red chalks of Boucher and the models of flowers, animals, and ornaments.
Chalks In place of paints a box of chalks will serve very well.
Thirty-one chalks complete the game; which he who first obtains is the conqueror.
The overseer not knowing how to write or cipher, kept the accounts of his monthly disbursements on the dairy-door, in round o's for shillings and long chalks for pence.
By and by, Chalks having concluded his pronouncement, and drifted to another corner of the room, Blake and I fell into separate talk.
Chalks did no more work that afternoon; and that evening quite twenty of us dined at Madame Chanve's; and it was almost like old times.
All the same, Lord help the man you marry,' Chalks continued gloomily.
If he were only an ass,' Chalks urged, 'one might feel disposed to spare him.
And Chalks got hold of his victim's hand and wrung it fervently.
Nina gave two little ahems, tense with suppressed mirth; and slowly, indifferently, Chalks turned an absent-minded face in our direction.
Stop right there, Mr. Blake,' called out Chalksin stentorian tones.
When they were delivered Chalks courteously explained the situation to the neophyte, adding that, as a further formality, he must make us acquainted with his name and occupation.
You would shear away the fabric of our joy,' Chalks answered.
Chalks doubtless argued from the eager eye with which the man regarded us; from the uneasy way in which he held his seat, shifting in it, and edging in our direction; and from the tentative manner in which he occasionally coughed.
Chalks was right, I dare say; we were easily amused.
Sometimes the LEGS are called chalks, and the chalks LEGS--one word is as good as another, provided an agreement is made beforehand.
In some old games there are so many LEGS to the chalk, and so many chalks to the game.
With my stick and my knife, my chalks and my brown paper, I went out on to the great downs.
I stooped and broke a piece off the rock I sat on; it did not mark so well as the shop chalks do; but it gave the effect.
The face in chalks on the mantelpiece seemed to crowd the dark, the face of the woman who had been hovering on the verge of his consciousness ever since the agent had mentioned her to him.
And yet the old passion had so much dominance still that he instinctively went nearer to his latest and best-loved creations, and took the white chalks up and worked once more by the dull sullen rays of the lamp behind him.
Raphael, says I, could 'ave done a masterpiece with them 'ere chalks and a nice smooth stone.
In the west portion of the state, which belongs to the Cretaceous formation, chalks and a species of native quicklime are very prominent in the river bluffs.
The white and cream-coloured chalks are much used for building purposes, but the blue is usually too soft for exposure to the weather.
I'm getting all mychalks mixed up with her intlupting me," he complained, looking angrily towards the piano where the devoted Pauline still battled madly with the Serenade.
In my own Grounds I have Chalks under Clays and Loams; but as the latter is better than the former, so the Water proves more soft and wholsome under one than the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chalks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
