In 1820 the sketchy great European 'empires' outside of Europe that had figured so bravely in the maps of the middle eighteenth century, had shrunken to very small dimensions.
It must be clearly understood by the reader how sketchy and provisional all these time estimates are.
And his face was so red and little and the nose so sketchy that it didn't seem likely he'd ever amount to much.
He saw Joanna wore a bracelet--a sketchy gold thing.
And forthwith a very sketchy warrior stepped, with a very martial air, upon the paper.
Seibert, there appear most sketchy reports of cases, recovery being reported without crisis in from three to nine days.
In the literature of the past ten years, there appearsketchy clinical articles on the value of huge doses of camphor in pneumonia.
It was a poor report, very sketchy and incomplete, and it probably would have been forgotten except that four nights later a similar UFO almost collided with an Eastern Airlines DC-3.
The wire went on to give a few sketchy details and state that the scoutmaster was a "solid citizen.
The reports were very sketchy and incomplete, most of them accounts from newspapers.
Not even conversion can make new habits overnight, and in his first two years at college Joe had been known to teachers and students alike as distinctly a sketchy student, wholly inexpert at concentrated effort.
Beyond the orchard, the wind, blowing from the marshes, chased the thin, sketchy shadows over the lawn at Jordan's Journey.
In the apple orchard the young grass was powdered with gold, and the long grey shadows of the trees barred the ground like the sketchy outlines in a impressionist painting.
The struggling author turned to the humorous, sketchy style, to win an ear and gain a penny.
Mr. French’s work is sketchy and readable, distinguished rather for the value of its detached remarks than for the comprehensiveness of its general plan.
How in the world is any one going to take a bath in a house with no doors, and only verysketchy wooden window-shutters?
It is exceedingly well developed in its details, notsketchy like Isyogo, nor so red-handed as Poorah.
The boy Stephen, just leaving school, is the only one that counts for much, though his two sisters, sketchy as is their appearance in the story, are excellently considered.
For a while murder ate at his heart, and wild ideas and sketchy plans of killing his betrayers flashed through his mind.
Beyond a sketchy clearing up of the most obvious debris, he may well come to the end of his first summer with practically nothing done to the grounds themselves.
If mother is to do the work, it may be warranted; but where her efforts are limited to one or two sketchy meals on Thursdays and Sunday evenings, one might well interview the person who is monitor of the service wing the bulk of the time.
In the course of the day he gets a little work done but in such sketchy fashion that most of it must be done over.
Yet here was Ryder telling him-- Ryder's telling him was a sketchy performance.
No sketchy outline can do justice to Mrs. Yellett or her costume.
The boys wore overalls and flannel shirts, which, in contrast to thesketchy effects of their sisters’ costumes, seemed almost modish.
The former seems to be nearer to our cases, judging by the statements in his rather sketchy account.
In the century prior to 1872 (See the digest of Dagonet’s publication in Chapter XV) French psychiatrists wrote some good descriptions of stupor and offered brilliant, though sketchy generalizations about the condition.
The same issue of the Post carried an editorial, mentioning in rather a sketchy way the benefits Mr. West had conferred upon Blaines College, and paying a high and confident tribute to his qualities as a citizen.
The young acting-editor, who never wrote what he did not think, had taken much pains with this editorial, especially the sketchy part.
It is quite useful for sketchy work, as it may be carried about almost like a sketchbook, and being so much cleaner than clay, it can be used even in the parlor without damage to table or carpet.
It is best not to bring the tint quite up to the outline, as a narrow edge of white left around the flower gives a pleasant, sketchy look to the painting.
Sophie was admiring her reflection in Mrs. Woods' mirror, a square of glass which gave no more than her head and shoulders in brilliant sketchy outlines.
After a sketchy wash in the supply train, and a cup of early tea from the officer's servant, I packed up and went across to No.
All cases now have to go through the Clearing Hospitals for classification and diagnosis and dressings, but it is of a sketchy character, as you may imagine.
A Reading man, with his face wounded and one eye gone, kept up a running fire of wit and hilarity during his dressing about having himself photographed as a Guy Fawkes for 'Sketchy Bits.
She and Anna ate those sketchymeals that obtain in a manless household.
With more shrewd perception of the many fine folks he mixed with than he cared to indulge in or set down on Paper, I fancy: judging from some sketchy touches of Macaulay, Talfourd, Bulwer, etc.
Oh for some more brave Trollope; who I am sure conceals a much profounder observation than these Dreadful Denners of Romance under his lightsome and sketchy touch, as Gainboro compared to Denner.
But the sketchy style of illustration seems to be a little overdone at present, and--being tolerable only when allied to great ability--remains consequently in the hands of a few.
The broad distinction between a "sketch" from Nature and a drawing made in a sketchy manner cannot be too often pointed out, and such drawings as those by Mr. G.
