sketch-book

Joseph Manson is a guy that would rather spend his time working in his sketch-book than talking with any of the kids in his school.

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The sketch-book of the Liber Veritatis, containing 195 drawings which Claude made as a record of his paintings, passed to his niece Agnese on his death.

The Embarkation of St Paula Romana at Ostia 2009

I was much struck with the tree and waterfall, and wished myself nearer them; not that I thought of sketch-book or portfolio — for in my younger days misses were not accustomed to black-lead pencils, unless they could use them to some good purpose — but merely to indulge myself with a closer view.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

By Joerg Colberg on August 13, 2004 8: 16 PM sketch-book n.

Conscientious: Sketchbook: August 2004 Archives 2004

This group of dusky children of the captivity is copied out of a little sketch-book which I carried in many a roundabout journey, and will point a moral as well as any other sketch in the volume.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Has our artist been among the same company, and brought back their portraits in his sketch-book?

George Cruikshank 2006

Only, on the next morning, I did not possess a certain five-pound note which on the previous evening was in my sketch-book (by far the prettiest drawing by the way in the collection) but there, instead, was a strip of paper, thus inscribed: —

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Why, in the same little sketch-book, there is a drawing of an Alabama river steamer which blew up on the very next voyage after that in which your humble servant was on board!

Roundabout Papers 2006

Dobbin used to carry about for her her stool and sketch-book, and admired the drawings of the good-natured little artist as they never had been admired before.

Vanity Fair 2006

Adam Bede in one hand, a sketch-book in the other, lying on rugs under an awning, I enjoyed a very pleasant day.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005