Just stumbled over the 'foolscap' comment, some months after you wrote it. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FOOLSCAP.] Reference
A lengthy dispatch covering, at least, two columns of "foolscap," and sent to the Brigade. From Wordnik.com. [Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery] Reference
So he wrote about ten sheets of foolscap paper, all about sinners. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
Green held out a pen to him and pointed to the bottom of the foolscap. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Opening it, he unfolded a sheet of foolscap and handed it to the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
"Look here at this sheet of foolscap," he exclaimed, waving it excitedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
We were given five sheets of foolscap, two hours and our own choice of subject. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917] Reference
It was printed on a half sheet of foolscap, with a large and almost wornout type. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He then hid himself behind a foolscap folio, to signify that the audience was ended. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
She pushed Geography aside and took a new sheet of foolscap with every prospect of passing. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
He usually preferred foolscap for these documents, and the capitals were numerous and imposing. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
Green had pulled a fountain pen from his pocket and adjusted a couple of sheets of official foolscap. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
A domino on the outer edge of the group came forward with a roll of foolscap, tied with a black cord. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
The former divided his speech into thirty-two heads; the latter took eighty pages of foolscap for his. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Is it not also graft when a student helps herself to examination foolscap and takes it for private use?. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
In conclusion, the good clergyman presented him with several pounds of foolscap, closely written over in. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
At his elbow was the clerk, with a quire of foolscap neatly arranged, and holding a pen idly in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
He crossed the room to a bookcase, took down a volume, opened it and brought out a sheet of folded foolscap. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Lancelot laughed in unison and seizing a couple of sheets of foolscap he opened and spread them on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Digesting my disgust as best I could, I lighted my cheroot with the mendacious foolscap and blushed for my species. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
I then gathered up every scrap of paper left on the table -- blotters, little note pads, foolscap -- used or unused. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Hillery, dated April 16, 1916, and a huge sheet of foolscap paper scrawled with labored characters in wavering lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
It held a stylograph and had been resting on some scattered sheets of foolscap that Ian had left there in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
You must write a Greek theme of not less than two pages of foolscap, on the Blessings of Peace, and bring it me on Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Night came again, and this time John opened the subject, by placing before me a large package of foolscap, and a new gold pen. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
It was written on long ruled foolscap on rather darkish blue paper in a pale blue ink, and it needed young eyes to decipher it. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
"Here are Tom Bowling's certificates, sir," said he, giving the couple of sheets of foolscap in question to his superior officer. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
It was printed on half a sheet of foolscap by James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin, who served his apprenticeship with him. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Then he saw a similar hand holding a sheet of foolscap paper on which he saw some writing, which he, however, was not able to read. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
A long foolscap statement by d'Aguilhe, in which the Notary of St. Elphège took care to duly magnify his own dignity and precautions. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
The telegram to be written on a sheet of foolscap paper, with the full name and address of the sender, and the name also of the nearest. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
He laid upon the table a wordy document in foolscap with a receipt stamp in one corner, and read it aloud in his own breathless chuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The last wills and testaments of the three greatest men of modern ages are tied up in one sheet of foolscap, and may be seen together at. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831] Reference
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