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"Lead pencil" Quotes from Famous Books

... to save time, two copies were written simultaneously—one for England and the other for America—by inserting a sheet of black copying paper between two sheets of thin "Field and Tuer" paper, and writing with a hard lead pencil and sufficient pressure to obtain a duplicate on the page placed underneath. Roberts Brothers were very desirous of seeing this new work, and had written: "We should like to make 'Human Intercourse' a companion volume to the 'Intellectual Life,' and the title is so ...

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

... who pictures some point in the room across the way with his eyes can easily mistake a fly, which he sees confusedly askance, for a great big bird. Again, the type of a book seems definitely smaller if the eyes are fixed on the point of a lead pencil with a certain distance before or above the book. And yet again, if you stand so that at an angle of about 90 degrees from the fixation point, you look at a white door in a dark wall, observing its extent in indirect ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... James declared. "It takes United Worlds seven solid days of debate to decide whether or not to buy one lead pencil." ...

— The Galaxy Primes • Edward Elmer Smith

... which momentary passion had ruled in Mr. Pickwick's clear and open brow gradually melted away, as his young friend spoke, like the marks of a black lead pencil beneath the softening ...

— Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism • F. V. N. Painter

... gentlemen," said the Senator, drawing a lead pencil from his pocket, "the Florence correspondent has been too sharp. I can explain all this at once. I was with the Countess, and we got talking of poetry. Now, I don't know any more about ...

— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille

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