slate-pencils

"I can't have any candy or slate-pencils for ever so long; but I don't care, 'cause I do like her, and she'll know it -- course she will if I buy her a handkerchief; and she wont think I got all mussed up on purpose," she soliloquized.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

I deposited it in my pocket among other valuables, -- twine, marbles, slate-pencils, &c.

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

She seized a slate, arranged two slate-pencils to work together and expedite her task and wrote: "Elizabeth Bruce detained for inattention."

An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner

And now Elias had suspected in his own mind that there existed a creature, somewhat like a mouse, somewhat like a red flower-pot, which glided around during the night-watches to sharpen slate-pencils, smooth out dog-ears from school-books, erase lead-pencil marks, polish up marbles, straighten kite strings, put the "suck" into brick-suckers, and otherwise make itself useful.

Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Miss POTTS admitted that, excepting occasional attacks of insatiable longing for True Sympathy, chiefly produced by over-eating of pickles and slate-pencils to avert excessive plumpness, she could generally take pie twice without experiencing a subsequent reactionary tendency to piety and gloomy presentiments.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 Various

They might, perhaps, make all oratory but their own penal, and then (who knows?) the reports of their debates might be read by the few unhappy persons who were demoniacally possessed by a passion for that kind of thing, as girls are sometimes said to be by an appetite for slate-pencils.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

His remaining list of commodities was made up of hats, caps and bonnets, boots and shoes, tin-pans and looking-glasses, slate-pencils and sifters; and as his standing advertisement in the village newspaper duly notified the public, 'other articles too numerous to mention -- call and see for yourselves.'

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

The window -- an ordinary one -- had wooden shelves nailed across it; and on these were displayed soap, slates and slate-pencils, bottles of peppermint lozenges, hearthstone, flannel, lemon-drops, gingham, sausages, and gingerbread.

A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson

"And now I want to ask you why you sometimes want to throw papers or slate-pencils about the room."

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

She was a sorrel-topped, anæmic, scrawny little thing, who ate slate-pencils and chewed paper, and she had gone crying to the teacher with the story of Pearl's violence against her.

Purple Springs 1921