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  • What I still look at most, in connection with that Luggage, is the extraordinary quantity of writing-paper, and all written on!

    Somebody's Luggage 2007

  • The demand for writing-paper is exceedingly small compared with the almost unlimited demand for unsized paper for printers.

    Eve and David 2007

  • The demand for writing-paper is exceedingly small compared with the almost unlimited demand for unsized paper for printers.

    Eve and David 2007

  • A scrap of writing-paper lay within, and arrested her attention by its freshness.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • You may buy gimlets at a penny each, white cotton thread at four balls for a halfpenny, and penknives, corkscrews, gunpowder, writing-paper, and many other articles as cheap or cheaper than you can purchase them in England.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • The Stoics affirm that every man, as soon as he is born, has a principal and commanding part of his soul, which is in him like a sheet of writing-paper, to which he commits all his notions.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • The villa, very uninviting in appearance, with low ceilings papered with writing-paper and with uneven floors full of crevices, consisted only of three rooms.

    The Wife 2004

  • Seizing ink and writing-paper, she began to write as if she had not time to breathe before she got her letter written.

    To Let 2004

  • ‘For Forsite,’ he had the pheasant proper placed upon his carriage and the buttons of his coachman, and both crest and motto on his writing-paper.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Instead of such smoothly rounded nails as Theresa Zapp displayed, the new young lady had nails narrow and sharp-pointed, the ends like little triangles of stiff white writing-paper.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

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