Crayoned

Once we crayoned an entire wall of the basement as a surprise for our mother and got into scads of trouble. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

And by then, I might be able to bear the robust table of family and smiling faces and crayoned circle with legs in the middle of the feast. ❋ Miriam Novogrodsky (2011)

While I did expect the father might turn up at some point I was thrilled by the way you cleverly wove in the crayoned note. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dr. Bauer's little office is plastered with Christian pamphlets and Bible verses that his children have crayoned onto printer paper. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But these things obviously run deep and, looking again at that compellingly sensible squad of players, dusting off the freshly crayoned swooshes and exclamation marks, it has all started to look oddly familiar. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Entering the neighborhood, Phipps had half expected to find the same pristine but characterless dwellings as in Darlington—square boxes that could have been drawn by a child but for the missing squiggle of crayoned smoke coming from their chimneys. ❋ P. J. Bracegirdle (2010)

They were so afraid of the legal costs of my crayoned application that they caved in and made my high paying, high pension job into a high paying, high pension, no effort job! ❋ Unknown (2008)

If so, is that because our imaginations are so very badly crayoned, because they have never been educated beyond primary school, because Imagining as a way of knowing has long been disregarded by scientific rationalism, the only Respectable Way of Knowing anything in our current society? ❋ Rus Bowden (2010)

Or have we lost touch with our imaginations to the extent that the very phrase Imagining Climate Change only brings images of pictures of a panting, smoke-encircled Earth crayoned by children? ❋ Rus Bowden (2010)

She, of course, picked it out and wrapped it: a box enclosed in shiny white paper, crayoned on by Ben. ❋ Ann Beattie (2010)

English aristocrats crayoned out borders to fit their scattered global interests, and Afghanistan the nation state was born, ephemeral as it was, existing only in the minds of those who wanted - or needed - to see it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I liked things much better when a nut job stood on corner with something crayoned on cardboard instead a nut job posting their delusions all over the internet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A Christmas card survives, a blurred photograph of Middleton, inscribed to Lord and Lady Jersey, with neatly crayoned signatures from each of the young convent evacuees: Winnie Miller; Tammy Murphy; Mary Reilly; Janet Hug… ❋ Miranda Seymour (2009)

In fact, I'd be willing to bet that a vast majority of folks stopped at that point, called Mr. Vice a pinko-commie leftie atheist Auburn fan with half a brain, and sent crayoned letters of complaint to the Oxford American, probably asking for Vice's mailing address so they could send him a little something. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What a richness of subject, two living things changing before our eyes, going from dumb clamor, from milk slop to formed words, or starting school, or just sitting at the table eating, little crayoned faces pumped with being. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)