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  • And I wrote the last sentence so carelessly that my pen slipped beyond the rough-book.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

  • He copies neatly out of the rough-book the number of miles, the course of the ship, and in the column for "wind" scrawled the word "calm" from top to bottom of the eight hours since noon.

    Typhoon, and other stories 1902

  • He copies neatly out of the rough-book the number of miles, the course of the ship, and in the column for "wind" scrawled the word "calm" from top to bottom of the eight hours since noon.

    Typhoon Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Author Mamata Banerjee has punctuated these rough-book jottings with pensive thoughts, a lot of conviction and passion for the people of Nandigram.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Now it no longer mattered what I’d written in my rough-book.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

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