Stencil Plate

-- A plate-culture of a bacillus which had been exposed for a period of four hours behind a zinc stencil-plate, in which the letters C and B were cut. ❋ Various (N/A)

To the stencil-plate chivalry of the lyrics of the ubiquitous F.E. Weatherby and John Oxenford, the song-status of E.gland can blame a deal of its stagnation. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

The enormous commercial demand of the five-cent weeklies for short stories of a few easily recognized patterns has resulted too often in a substitution of stencil-plate generalized types instead of delicately and powerfully imagined individual characters. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

There's an aniline dye that you rub through a stencil-plate that eats about a foot into any stone and wears good to the last. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

He handed me a paint-dappled copper stencil-plate, two feet square, bearing in the centre the six-inch initials, "G.M." ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

They were regarded as a perfect protection against sin, and advertised as such by my knights everywhere, with the paint-pot and stencil-plate; insomuch that there was not a cliff or a bowlder or a dead wall in England but you could read on it at a mile distance: ❋ Unknown (1889)

I am driven from pillar to post and hurried up and down, sometimes with stencil-plate and paste-brush to defile the fences with cabalistic legends, and sometimes in grotesque and extravagant character at the behest of some driving journal. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Until within the last few years the printing of cards was generally done by stencilling, the colour being applied through perforated devices in a stencil-plate. ❋ Unknown (1870)

"stoop," along the front fall of which, in faded white block letters, as though originally done with a stencil-plate, appeared the strange device: ❋ Various (N/A)

a stencil-plate, which when placed on a clean paper, and evenly inked with a rolling brush, reproduces the original writing. ❋ John Munro (1889)

"C.rpse said, whitewash his old canoe and dob his address and general destination onto it with a blacking-brush and a stencil-plate, 'long with a verse from some likely hymn or other, and pint him for the tomb, and mark him C. O. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)

"Corpse said, whitewash his old canoe and dob his address and general destination onto it with a blacking-brush and a stencil-plate, 'long with ❋ Mark Twain (1872)