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Example sentences for "scribblings"

Lexicographically close words:
scribbled; scribbler; scribblers; scribbles; scribbling; scribe; scribed; scribendi; scribendo; scriber
  1. The subject matter of these scribblings is much the same as that of the similar scrawls made to-day by boys, street idlers and the casual "tripper.

  2. Concerning these, Mr. Spedding says: "I find nothing in these later scribblings or in what remains of the book itself to indicate a date later than the reign of Elizabeth.

  3. It is not necessary here to refer to the remainder of these original writings, but there is a mass of curious scribblings all over the page.

  4. There are some interesting scribblings on the walls of this chapel.

  5. He frowned uncomprehendingly at the things that were written there; it was neither mathematics nor language, but many of the scribblings were jumbles of letters and figures.

  6. She strove earnestly to show them more of it than the school-books told; she aimed higher than mere correctness in the exercises, those anxious, careful, or heedless scribblings with which her reticule was crammed.

  7. Several inns have been identified from signs and from scribblings on the walls within.

  8. The most prominent theme of the graffiti is love, which is constantly reappearing, in prose scribblings and in snatches of verse.

  9. They cover a wide field, ranging from commemorative tablets put up at public expense to the scribblings of idlers upon the plastered walls.

  10. Nevertheless, we gain from these scribblings a lively idea of individual tastes, passions, and experiences.

  11. Fantastic designs, even when marked by the early graphic talent which Thackeray's rudest scribblings display, are apt to entail unpleasant consequences when discovered in school-books, and greater attractions were held out by works of fiction.

  12. Sometimes these scribblings took the form of little stories--crudely conceived and incoherently expressed, but rich in the picturesque thought and language of an exceptionably imaginative and precocious child.

  13. In the hope that these Scribblings will be some amusement for you this Evening, I remain, copying on the Hill, Your sincere friend and Co-scribbler JOHN KEATS.

  14. However in a few Letters I hope I shall be able to come at that and adapt my scribblings to your Pleasure.

  15. I wish my friend Leibgeber to pack up, and keep possession of, all my scribblings as soon as I myself am stuck into my last addressed envelope.

  16. Now these scribblings of mine will be sent to these gentlemen as soon as they are in print (as your hymn-book is).

  17. Those inferences about the vast world outside, which Leibniz had allowed his spirits to make in their solitary confinement, were reduced by the more scrupulous Kant to scribblings upon their prison walls.


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