Garth found the pencil on the floor beneath the bed, as if it had rolled there when Taylor had dropped it.
He grasped a pencil and wrote rapidly on a piece of paper.
She spread out a sheet of the new writing-paper on the window-seat, knelt in front of it with a pencil in her hand, and ruled some lines.
She had tried to write to it, but the words would not come, and her fingers trembled so much that she could not hold the pencil straight.
She could not write very well, and was often uncertain how to spell even short words; so she bit the end of herpencil and sighed a good deal before the letter was finished.
The reproductions of objects in the Louvre are all from the pencil of M.
Many of those drawings were from the pencil of Nestor L'Hôte, one of those who have most sympathetically rendered the Egyptian monuments.
Most of the more important perspectives and restorations due to the learned pencil of M.
Not unfrequently he used his paints in the form of a dry powder, which he rubbed up with his pencil with oil, or turpentine, or gold size, regardless of the quantity, and depending for accident on the general effect.
Fuhrich has been fairly described as a "Nazarene," a romantic religious artist whose pencil did more than any other to restore the old spirit of Durer and give new shape to countless incidents of the gospel and scriptural legends.
There is a certain quality about an original drawing which you cannot get in a woodcut, and the best part of the genius of many men is only expressible in original work, whether with pen or ink--pencil or colours.
While we were walking on the ramparts, I happened to have occasion to take down an address, and with the paper and pencil in my hand turned out of the direct path to observe a chapel on one side of it.
But when once the door is opened, a scene takes place which bids defiance to language, and calls for the pencil of a Hogarth.
Taglioni, in pencil caricature, her limbs "divinely slender," gyrated on her toes in reckless abandon above this mute record of names now forgotten.
The adjutant saluted and turned on his heel, while General Scott bent over the papers before him, studying a number of rough pencil tracings.
Chopin denied this, made me repeat the piece, and beat time aloud with the pencil on the piano--his eyes were glowing.
Prefixed to the first volume of the present biography the reader will find one of the portraits by Kwiatkowski, an etching after a charming pencil drawing in my possession, the reproduction of which the artist has kindly permitted.
The most audacious pencil might tremble in the rash attempt of defining, by forms and colors, the infinite Spirit, the eternal Father, who pervades and sustains the universe.
Arcot floated into the room after him and watched as Morey made his observations and began to work swiftly with pencil and paper.
Arcot pulled a pad of paper and a pencil from his pocket and began to sketch rapidly.
They even managed to get six hundred amperes through a piece of lead wire no bigger than a pencil lead.
From the ship, a long pencil of rays, faintly violet from the air they ionized, reached out and touched the cliff.
The four girls started off up Long Lane, chatting and laughing, each with a piece of paper and pencil to write her wish when the well was reached.
Those prints that you noticed on the library walls Rosamond used to copy in the past time, when her pencil was often guided by Ida's hand.
Lomaque produced his pocket-book and pencilbefore he spoke again.
She now opened the note which the young nobleman had pressed into her hand, and read over and over again the hurried pencillines scrawled on the paper.
It was the slate that was in great trouble; for there was an addition sum on it that was added up wrong, and the slate-pencil was hopping and jumping about in its string, like a little dog that wanted to help the sum, but it could not!
No pencil or artist has preserved to us the semblance of his features, no gravestone marks his resting-place.
The pencil of Wilkie could alone describe the wild burst of unrestrained glee at this declaration.
On Good Friday, when the work was to be performed for the second time, he took his copy with him to the Sistine, and, concealing it in his cocked hat, he made one or two corrections in pencil as the service proceeded.
Ruth cried, with more enthusiasm than she was wont to show, and got out paper and pencil immediately.
At night on the 19th, a short note in pencil was left with my Swiss, announcing the destruction of the army.
Presently she slipped back into the house for a pencil and box of paper, and sitting on the swing with her geography on her knees for a writing-table, she poured out her troubles in a letter to Jack.
With her elbows resting on the rustic table in front of her, and one finger unconsciously twisting the lock of curly brown hair that strayed over her ear, she sat pushing her pencil rapidly across the pages of her note-book.
Rob found her still poring over it, pencil and paper in hand, when he looked into the room an hour later.
For a moment Alec sat quite still without putting pencil to paper; he had so much to say that he didn't know where to begin.
For a moment or two the stump ofpencil rapidly travelled over the paper, and then again Alec paused.
Small hand-lamps are used to send out a pencil of light as directed by a pair of sights and the code is flashed by means of a trigger.
If a pencil or coin be moved rapidly, a number of images appear which are due to the pulsating character of the light.
The man obeyed, producing paper and pencilfrom a pocket.
The sergeant scribbled hard, finished, licked his penciland awaited further orders.
