lead-pencil

Scion of famous Hollywood ancestry, Cliff lives with his mother the former 1950's lead-pencil heiress and socialite, now penniless lush Cobina Cugat, bandleader husband Rusty Kadiddlehopper, their two cats Poppers & Rage and Basset Hound Pigtails in a one bedroom apartment in the North Valley.

Archive 2009-03-01 Desuko. 2009

Cowperwood stepped forward and laid out a purse with twenty-five dollars in it, a pen-knife, a lead-pencil, a small note-book, and a little ivory elephant which Aileen had given him once, “for luck,” and which he treasured solely because she gave it to him.

The Financier 2004

“No, sir,” she replied, dropping her slim, firm, white hand, holding a black lead-pencil restfully on her notebook.

The Titan 2004

'I remember,' he wrote later, 'the Schoolmaster at the Academy; and the mingled odor that hovered about him of tobacco, india-rubber, and lead-pencil.

Trials of a teacher's life 2004

'I remember,' he wrote later, 'the Schoolmaster at the Academy; and the mingled odor that hovered about him of tobacco, india-rubber, and lead-pencil.

Lance Mannion: 2004

On the face of a winged sphinx which supported it some one had drawn a mustache in lead-pencil.

Babbit 2004

A pink translucent fish no greater than a lead-pencil wriggles in and out of the lemon-coloured coral.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Looking much gratified, Tom produced the stump of a lead-pencil, and wrote his name with a flourish, saying, as he gave it back,

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Phil struck a match and examined it carefully, making out a dim "O.K." which she had marked on it with a lead-pencil.

Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse

When he had hunted down the elusive lead-pencil he moistened it on his tongue and set to work deliberately to draw on the slicker.

The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart