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  • They had brought several presents which they thought would amuse the child during the long hours he probably spent in bed, a jig-saw puzzle, a drawing-slate, a box of coloured chalks, a painting-book, and a lovely volume of new fairy tales.

    A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

  • I lost to him a good drawing-slate and a figure-4 trap.

    Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893

  • Little Jack was in a corner, busy with a drawing-slate; he turned round as his mother came in.

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • "Mamma gave me a drawing-slate on my birthday," I replied, "but Joseph bothered me to lend it to him, and now he's broken the glass.

    Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

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