blotting-pad

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noun A pad consisting of several layers of blotting-paper, which can be successively removed as they become soiled or saturated with ink.

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The captain stared at the blotting-pad before him in a giant effort of concentration.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010
The naval officer absently wrote "Rugson" on his blotting-pad.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010
They left him; the wing-commander remained seated at his desk, tapping a pencil irritably on his blotting-pad.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010
The commander sat motionless, staring at his blotting-pad.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010
The air officer absently made a note upon his blotting-pad.

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An object rolled over on to the blotting-pad and miraculously became alight.

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As Filmer went up and down that room wrestling with his intolerable dilemma he went first towards the neat little rifle athwart the blotting-pad and then towards the neat little red label

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
He put his blotting-pad square on the table, closed the lid of the inkstand, arranged his pens.

New Grub Street 2003
He held his hand over the desk and let a handful of small colored stones trickle through his fingers, to bounce on the stained felt blotting-pad.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
"Yes, Miss Parker," said Belinda, meekly, and began to make a little sketch of the teacher on her blotting-pad.

The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970