Some of the compounds of silver possess this faculty to a remarkable degree, -- as the common indelible marking-ink, (a solution of nitrate of silver,) which soon darkens in the light, shows us every day. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a corner grocery; advertisements for cheap butter and eggs, painted in green marking-ink upon wrapping paper, stood about on the sidewalk outside. ❋ Unknown (1920)
It was not much that he was able to see of her; for there, also, every one was busy with needles and thread and with marking-ink, and she sat bending over her work. ❋ Unknown (1917)
My aunt took so kindly to the notion, that some ready-made clothes, which were purchased for me that afternoon, were marked Trotwood Copperfield, in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way. ❋ Unknown (1917)
My aunt took so kindly to the notion, that some ready-made clothes, which were purchased for me that afternoon, were marked 'Trotwood Copperfield', in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1917)
To all of these, abruptly and with ceremony, Mr. George Bross, shipping clerk, introduced himself: a brawny young man in shirt-sleeves, wearing a visorless cap of soiled linen, an apron of striped ticking, pencils behind both angular red ears, and a smudge of marking-ink together with a broad irritating smile upon a clownish countenance. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
That gentleman, having some time since despaired of any response to his persistent baiting, was now preoccupied with a hand-mirror and endeavours to erase the smudge of marking-ink from his face by means of a handkerchief which he now and again moistened in an engagingly natural and unaffected manner. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
It is an expensive hat, by Lincoln and Bennett, and I see you have judiciously written your name in indelible marking-ink on the lining. ❋ Unknown (1902)
"Because on the other days you forgot to bring home the marking-ink." ❋ Barry Pain (1896)
I have my own business to attend to in the city without always thinking about marking-ink. ❋ Barry Pain (1896)
It 'does not injure the most delicate fabric,' as they say of marking-ink, and I have seen it perform wonderful cures. ❋ Unknown (1892)
She protected a shirt, illustrated by his own hand, in marking-ink, with cricketers, which caused infinite scandal to the washerwomen of Fern ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Here also he provided a store of packing-boxes, of varying dimensions, with hammer and nails and marking-ink; much speculating to himself on the peculiarities of the service in which he found himself. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
Copperfield ', in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
His mind was of so tenacious a character, that an impression once received there became indelible; and if the Major once made up his mind, or indulged the belief, that such and such things were so and so, the waters of truth could never wash out the mistake -- stubbornness had written them there with her own indelible marking-ink. ❋ Samuel Lover (1832)
We are not talking about marking-ink; we are talking about trains! " ❋ Barry Pain (1896)
