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Steep crags and headlong linns may court the pencil,
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Then perceiving upon the table some dust from the black lead pencil,
Cecilia 2008
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"That dotted line," said Win, pointing to it with Max's pencil,
The Spanish Chest Edna Adelaide Brown
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Look, if you've got a piece of paper and a pencil,
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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"Let me write it," said Margery, eagerly taking the paper and pencil,
Happy Days 1919
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Once he handed me a poem he had just dashed off written with pencil,
Memories and Anecdotes Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 1915
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"James Heriot Walkingshaw," he read, with this addendum in pencil,
The Prodigal Father 1907
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Granice read the name -- J.B. Hewson -- and underneath, in pencil,
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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"I'd get the sack for that," Hal spluttered, busily plying her pencil,
Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897
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Chinese exotic art, or the first rude attempts of the native pencil,
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji William Elliot Griffis 1885
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