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Example sentences for "pencilled"

Lexicographically close words:
penchant; pencil; penciled; penciling; pencilings; pencilling; pencillings; pencils; pendance; pendant
  1. At this point a pencilled note was handed by the coroner to Mr. Whitney, who immediately summoned George Hardy and hastily despatched him on some errand.

  2. Henry Carruthers," with a London address, and underneath had been hastily pencilled the word "Important.

  3. Each of the 35 pages of the pencilled sketch, as it was dealt with, had a vertical line drawn across it and was thrown aside.

  4. His fingers trembled when he found a pencilled note from Barbara.

  5. When he entered the dining-room, a pencilled note in a distantly familiar writing was lying by his plate.

  6. He had hardly finished reading them, when a pencilled note, sent by hand from Mrs. Shelley, made the tenth.

  7. While she was gone, his parlour-maid came in with a swaying mass of White Enchantress carnations and a pencilled note.

  8. On the evening of the third day he saw the signal for which he waited--the smoke of a tug rising above the low roofs on the town quay, and above the smoke the top-gallants and royals of a tall vessel pencilled against the sunset's glow.

  9. Devereux looked from under his finely pencilled brows with a sad sort of smile at good little Puddock.

  10. Her ladyship pencilled on the back of the note, 'Pray call the dear babe Magnolia,' and forthwith forgot all about it.

  11. Ariel was not the only one who climbed the dingy stairs that day and read the pencilled script upon Joe's door: "Will not return until evening.

  12. She tore it open and read the few pencilled words: "I want to see you at once.

  13. A brief drive to the Embassy in the Calle Fernando el Santo, a hastily pencilled note sent up to Rossett.

  14. I do recall that he said Poe wrote too much in a dark cellar, and that music was his chief recreation--of which art he knew nothing; it served him as a sounding background for his pencilled improvisations.

  15. After his death thousands of sketches, designs, pencilled memoranda, and cartoons were found, and then there was whistled another tune.

  16. Indeed, he could not get away from that pencilled line running right into the Gulf of Smyrna.

  17. The pencilled line which indicated their course ended abruptly.

  18. With these latter went a pencilled note from the battalion commander as follows: "Rations here in plenty.

  19. Then he saw the tottering word "Irene" pencilled on the open page, and broke down himself.

  20. On the first floor she paused, took out a blank card, and pencilled on it: "Can I see you a minute?

  21. Bianca pencilled on her card: "If you can come to my father to-day or tomorrow, please do.

  22. Taking out his card-case, he pencilled the following message: 'Come round at once.

  23. Left thus abruptly to himself, General Pendyce summoned a page, slowly pencilled something on his card, and with his back to the only persons in the hall, waited, his hands folded on the handle of his cane.

  24. Then I found an officer just going out to the trenches, and sent by him a pencilled note to Lieutenant Cluverius, thinking an officer would be likely to receive a communication, when a private might not.

  25. Gradually his kind face and gentle manner reassured her, and she was, at last, persuaded to convey to her mother a few lines which he pencilled on a card.

  26. Only a pencilled scrawl, but he knew every word of it by heart, and of the burst of excited speech in the Judge's office nothing remained in his mind but the general impression that he had made a fool of himself there.

  27. It was only a pencilled scrawl of a letter, on the roughest of copy paper, and so crumpled that he must have been quite familiar with it, but he read it intently.

  28. There it lies, pencilled on the clouds, evanescent, momentarily changing.

  29. That form and figure, pencilled darkly against the blue sky, are still in my mind.

  30. It appeared to be a sheet torn from a perforated memorandum block, and bore the pencilled inscription: "Handed in by Reuben at 7.

  31. He might have kept the marked paper for future use, and, on the occasion of the robbery, pencilled a dated inscription on it, and slipped it into the safe as a sure means of diverting suspicion.

  32. He had pencilled on it some particulars relating to the diamonds, and laid it on the parcel before he closed up the safe.

  33. She came over to me, and then her thin little hand followed my forefinger as I made a pencilled mark on the chart to the south-east.

  34. If any doubt remains as to the locality of the front it will be removed by Capon's pencilled note on the door to the left,[131] stating that it led to Parliament Place.

  35. This we know from Capon's pencilled notes to the sketch in the frontispiece.

  36. In the few moments of leisure which came to me as I lay in the shade of a grain-rick, I pencilled rough outlines of poems.

  37. In reply he pencilled on a slip as though we were deaf, and finally laid the completed bill face down beside my plate.

  38. Soon afterward, while sitting in the door looking out over the fields, I pencilled the first draft of a little poem called Color in the Wheat which I also read to her.

  39. Her mother herself had arranged her hair to-day, and it clustered in short shining curls above her forehead, contrasting wondrously with the delicately pencilled but decided arch of the dark eyebrows.

  40. Mr. Tegetmeier informs me that, when distinct breeds are crossed, fowls are frequently produced with their feathers marked or pencilled by narrow transverse lines of a darker colour.

  41. Spangled feathers have a dark mark, properly crescent-shaped, on their tips; whilst pencilled feathers have several transverse bars.

  42. But, as we have already seen, it cannot be given as a general rule that male fowls never have pencilled feathers, for Cuckoo Dorkings are "remarkable from having nearly similar markings in both sexes.

  43. In pencilled Hamburghs, on the other hand, there is much dissimilarity; the pencilling which is characteristic of the hens being almost absent in the males of both the golden and silver varieties.

  44. He sent us a few pencilled words, urging us to utmost endeavours with the wild-goats, as this will be in all probability our last chance.

  45. The incident gives opportunity to introduce two rough sketches pencilled down at the moment.

  46. A dread of Munchausenism verily gives pause in writing even of what one has seen again and again, raising doubts of one's own eyesight and of the pencilled notes that, year after year, we had scrupulously written down on the spot.

  47. He also sent more flowers to his studio, with pencilled orders to Aristocrates.

  48. Hotel Astor" was pencilled in the corner.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pencilled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.