water-mark

Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of a book, octavo size, no water-mark.

Sole Music 2010

It may possibly recur to your memory that when I examined the paper upon which the printed words were fastened I made a close inspection for the water-mark.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

Harvard College had left nothing but “an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Harvard College had left nothing but “an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Both were too proud to run; but, if ever Amyas prayed in his life, he prayed for the last twenty yards before he reached the water-mark.

Westward Ho! 2007

Such devices would be the high water-mark to date, and hint at the possibility of even more effective technology.

40% Efficiency Solar Cells Developed | Impact Lab 2007

With a handful of dust I made a water-mark round my neck, the place where Mr

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

By inspecting the water-mark of the paper Lockhart discovered that 1805 was the period in which the first few chapters were composed; the rest of the paper was marked 1814.

Waverley 2004

But none of the paper bears a water-mark, between 1805 and 1813, so Scott must merely have taken it up, in 1810, as it had been for five years.

Waverley 2004

This seems to have been deposited while the river was in flood, for it covers only those rocks which lie between the highest water-mark and a line about four feet above the lowest.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004