Pencilings

I see, by the English magazines, that Willis and his 'pencilings' get little quarter there; they deserve none. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

His paraphrase, “When in doubt tell the truth,” is one of these, and he embodied his whole attitude toward Infinity when in one of his stray pencilings he wrote: ❋ Unknown (2003)

She had totally forgotten the sister who had sunk on a divan beside them, her brown eyes rimmed in their dark pencilings turning from one to the other as if to read their faces. ❋ Mary Hastings Bradley (N/A)

She said something about the pencilings and colorings of the Almighty being in the tulips. ❋ Edward Eldridge (N/A)

The first gray pencilings of dawn were scarcely visible when the slumbering camp was roused by the rolling notes of the reveille from the drum of little Solly Barrett, [A] the drummer-boy of Howard's ❋ Various (N/A)

Grey pencilings of smoke stole straightly upward to the sky, so that look where she would Rita could discern nothing but these countless thin, faintly wavering, vertical lines of vapor. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

It seemed to be several pages from an old diary, and was worn so that the pencilings could scarcely be read. ❋ Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens (1911)

Then he entered the chapel, and shortly was in the midst of a sermon evidently suggested by the occasion, his whole manuscript being a few pencilings on a sheet or two of note-paper, all the rest being extemporized in his best vein, both as to matter and manner. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Phil picked it up idly, and noted certain pencilings that caused her heart to give a sudden bound. ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)

His paraphrase, "When in doubt tell the truth," is one of these, and he embodied his whole attitude toward Infinity when in one of his stray pencilings he wrote: ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

I did not then realize that this was the first symptom of flat-collecting in its acute form, or that in examining her crude pencilings I was courting the infection. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

One seldom sees a fresh copy of her works; they are always read to pieces, thumbed by eager schoolgirls, marked with enthusiastic pencilings, which the guardians of libraries try in vain to prevent. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Frank turned over the leaves, which were marked here and there with pencilings. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Ford nodded, and while he was reading hastily through the sheaf of pencilings a boy brought him a telegram. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

Still, indeed, there was the same innocent sweetness; still there was something of the same loveliness; the expression still remained; but for the features -- all trace of flesh seemed to have vanished; mere outline of bony structure remained; mere pencilings and shadowings of what she once had been. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)

But nowhere could illustrations be found more interesting -- shy, delicate, evanescent -- shy as lightning, delicate and evanescent as the colored pencilings on a frosty night from the Northern Lights, than in the better parts of Lamb. ❋ Various (1885)

The heads of these comet-like masses are composed of nearly solid water, and are dense white in color like pressed snow, from the friction they suffer in rushing through the air, the portion worn off forming the tail between the white lustrous threads and films of which faint, grayish pencilings appear, while the outer, finer sprays of water-dust, whirling in sunny eddies, are pearly gray throughout. ❋ John Muir (1876)

Enna had lost flesh and color; and long indulgence of a fretful, peevish temper had drawn down the corners of her mouth, lined her forehead, and left its ugly pencilings here and there over the once pretty face, so that it already began to look old and care-worn. ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

“[USE] A [PENCIL] [TIMMY]!” ❋ A Random Joseph Appears (2018)

Dude, i had my [circumcision] yesterday. I was [penciling] [my dick] all night. ❋ Robert Theodore Bush-Arias (2019)

Pencil: :o [Heyy]!! Lady 1: Hello. Lady 2: Hey Pencil.. Pencil: Okay, Now let's have sex. *What happens in the [PC] [stays] in the PC..* ❋ This Is Bullshit! (2009)

Pencil: Hi. [Lady] 1: [Hello]! Lady 2: [Heyy]! Pencil: Ok, Now let's have sex. ❋ This Is Bullshit. (2009)

Ok John, I've [got you] pencilled in for two [o'clock] on [Thursday] unless something comes up. ❋ Way Cool Rich (2007)

[starfish]: hey can i borrow a pencil? cow: you mean [writing stick]? starfish: [screw you]. ❋ 21patrick60 (2009)

" [Did I] [book] that [music video]?" "They have you pencilled in." ❋ Sass O'clock (2015)

*[throws] pencil*. [Billy],"[Owww]!". ❋ Casserole (2003)

James: Yo why are you [penciling] Hannah? Do you have a crush on her? [Derek]: Man I thought [you already] knew. Hannah: Derek you like me? Meet me after school. ❋ Doctor Thea (2019)

[No example] for [this definition] ❋ Pencil Definer (2004)