ink-stains

Do you know, I never could help imagining that she had ink-stains on her fingers.

New Grub Street 2003

He already saw her coming from school as the day drew in, laughing, with ink-stains on her jacket, and carrying her basket on her arm.

Madame Bovary 2003

As they came to the last slope, Jack and Roger drew near, changed from the ink-stains to distinguishable figures.

Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954

For the first two months of the first winter session the fingers of the new man are nothing but ink-stains and industry.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

Benedictine monk, which was kept in round the waist by a silk girdle, and was always scrupulously guarded from ink-stains.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

You see I am very comfortably settled in my big by-by and I do not want to have any ink-stains.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Together they seemed to form a lulling draught for her senses; Susan felt as if undue cold, undue heat, haste and worry and work, the office with its pencil-dust and ink-stains and her aunt's house, odorous, dreary and dark, were alike a half-forgotten dream.

Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Not long afterward I saw the library table with the helmeted knights standing before an auctioneer's door in University Place; and I looked with a pang at the familiar ink-stains, in which I had so often traced the geography of Paul's visionary world.

In Trust 1906

They seemed to him no more morally meritorious than the removal of dust from his coat sleeves, or of ink-stains from his hands.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

Marjorie had seen her mother try to take ink-stains out of white linen with milk, and, though the operation was rarely entirely successful, she hoped it would work better on her own skin.

Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902