My own dark hours pass more easily as I make my cryptic jottings in pedlar's French.
It may be of interest to put together some desultory jottings on this important topic.
Many years ago, a discussion was carried on in the columns of Notes and Queries concerning the origin of the saying round which my present desultory jottings are centred.
Your notes will be at best mere jottings of chance sentences here and there.
It is impossible to write a coherent report from chance jottings and to confine the report to saying "This was good; that was bad, the other was mediocre.
Perhaps after the play is over the critic finds that his jottings contain another idea that is of greater importance than the first; then he may incorporate the second into the first or discard the first altogether.
Readers can satisfy themselves on this head by reading the chapter on "Atheism in Prison" in the "Jottings from Jail" of the Rev.
From one point of view they seem those of a district visitor; from another, they look like the formless jottings of an artist in the picturesque.
Puy Van Buren, Jottingsof a Year's Sojourn in the South (Battle Creek, Mich.
Puy Van Buren, Jottingsof a Year's Sojourn in the South, pp.
DePuy Van Buren, Jottings of a Sojourn in the South (Battle Creek, Mich.
It is especially valuable at this stage of his journal, because it treats on the whole geography of the district between Lakes Nyassa and Moero, with a broad handling which is impossible in the mere jottings of a diary.
The Doctor's custom was always to have metallic note-books in use, in which the day's jottings were recorded.
The jottingsthat he made in his notebooks and the fragments of poems that he noted down as the inspiration came to him remind us often of Whitman.
Poetry was a thing of rhapsodic outbursts, of tiptoe glimpses: his eager jottings for poems made on the backs of envelopes, scraps of paper, anything that was at hand, fill a volume.
In his Commonplace Book, a series ofjottings made throughout his life, he reiterated his belief, but uttered a doubt as to the connection between possession and witchcraft.
In addition to all this, he was contributing jottings in London to the Corsair.
The names of most of the literary celebrities of the day appear amid the disjointed jottings of her diary.
The end was fast approaching, and my concluding jottings seem to belong to what has gone before.
It should be said here that these jottings are without the aid of a scrap of notes or other memoranda.
He says of his writings, "that they are rough jottings from memory without access to any data or books of reference and with little attempt at sequence.
Persons and things I have left behind will probably come into these jottings in the loose way they fall from the pen.
They prove that he understood what he read, but unlike other similar jottings by him they give little evidence of critical power.
Secondly, much of his work is mere jotting, never in the very least degree intended for publication, and sometimes explicitly corrected or retracted by later jottings of the same kind.
The jottings from his note-books that Mr. Paine has published consist mainly of mere childlike observations of sheer fact or expressions of personal animus.
These are jottings my uncle made from time to time," he declared.
These are as strikingly put as certain jottings are obscure which deal on a neighboring page with some possible meanings of the heart-beat.
Jottings on "The Life and Work of Father Chiniquy," by Cousin Susan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jottings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
