Whenever a legend is written with a lead pencil, it is advisable to use the pencil when the paint (which should be white lead) is still fresh or soft.
They are ordinarily made of roots from the size of a lead pencilto one's little finger, and are cut in lengths from 3 to 5 in.
Fresh zinc takes a lead pencil readily, and the writing often becomes more legible as it becomes older, and it will usually remain three or four years.
B, which can be made in one piece with the drum, if a wood lathe is at hand, but a piece cut from a curtain pole and a lead pencil inserted in a hole bored in the end will answer the purpose.
The wood was sharpened like a lead pencil at one end, and a groove was cut out of the tapered part to hold the ink.
The following method permits the rolling of a pipe, about the size of a lead pencil, from paper that becomes so stiff that it is almost impossible to crush it between the thumb and fingers.
The small end of the horn should be cut off at such a point that the hole will be about the size of a lead pencil.
Barth gave away a black-lead pencil in Aghadez, and afterwards everybody came to ask him for one.
I now write the names of the sultans of the province in Arabic, before them, with a black-lead pencil.
It should be made about the size of a lead pencil, and eleven [Page 92] inches or so in length, depending of course upon the size of the box.
In this case it should consist merely of a round stick of about the thickness of a lead pencil, and we will say, 7 or 8 in.
On the other side of the cavity, and three inches from it a small auger hole (the size of a lead pencil), should be bored.
In the centre of the top board a hole of the diameter of a lead pencil should be bored, and a smaller aperture also made in the middle of each end near the edge as seen in the accompanying engraving.
The ornaments are drawn in outline with a black-lead pencil, and then painted and shaded, to give the proper effect.
The prints taken from such plates bear a strong resemblance to paintings in Indian ink, or to drawings in black-lead pencil.
A piece of transparent paper is then laid over the design to be copied, and traced in outline with a black-lead pencil.
In executing this kind of work, a drawing is first made on the silver with a lead pencil.
The object of using the powdered Bath-brick is to render the surface less slippery, and thus capable of affording a better hold to the point of the black-lead pencil.
Without such a precaution, a drawing made on the block with black-lead pencil would, in a great measure, be effaced by the breath of the engraver passing freely over it in such weather.
He watched Babette leave the house with a sigh of relief, and for the remainder of the afternoon he made intricate calculations with the stub of a lead pencil on the backs of old envelopes.
He pulled an old envelope out of his pocket and explored his waistcoat for a stump of lead pencil.
Then she retreated behind a cloak-rack while Milton wielded a lead pencil in a businesslike fashion.
That mauve and grey orchid was probably not even sketched in with a lead pencil.
In this drawing every line of the black-lead pencil is more eloquent than Demosthenes' most eloquent period.
A tree a hundred years old may have heartwood scarcely larger than a lead pencil, and occasionally there is none.
Sometimes the heartwood is no larger than a lead pencil in trunks forty or fifty years old.
The fruit is a pod seven or nine inches long, and as slender as a lead pencil.
Another plan is to cut out the pattern in card-board, thin brass, or wood, and stencil it with a lead pencil or colour which will wash off.
Let him draw on it two lines with a lead pencil, across the grain, one-fourth of an inch distant from each other.
The sections should be knocked up quite squarely, and should be marked on the back with a soft black-lead pencil in the manner shown in Fig.
Rule lightly, with a black-lead pencil, some lines to work upon.
The lettering may be roughly sketched in either with a soft black-lead pencil or a piece of charcoal.
As an eminent instructor of the art once declared: "Work with a lead pencil on a 2×4 paper, and the chances are that your scrolls will be of the 2×4 order.
The designing of the flat scroll can best be done upon manilla paper, the tracings being executed with a lead pencil.
The beginner should under no circumstances confine his efforts to learn scrolling to a pad of paper and a lead pencil.
I asked one of the boys to tap the tube slightly with a lead pencil so as to jar the metal filings, and as soon as he did so the needle of the ammeter went back to zero.
This cavity was filled with small pieces of graphite, G, made by cutting up a lead pencil.
The lower carbon, when removed from the lamp chimney of the last experiment, served as a lead pencil to write on paper.
Still, there remained much to be done in the field of black- lead pencil making in order to do justice to the increasing demands of art and the requirements of more civilized life.
THE black-lead pencil, under many circumstances, is a very useful substitute for the pen, in that it requires no liquid ink for marking the characters on paper or other materials.
The "Fabers," who date back to the year 1761, are known all over the world as lead pencil makers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lead pencil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
