And I ended up in the middle of the night just kind of jotting down those lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [Brandi Carlile Goes Straight for the Gut] Reference
She also encourages associative thinking, such as jotting down a list of loosely related terms or phrases that conjure up your concept. From Wordnik.com. [And Now, the Tricky Part: Naming Your Business] Reference
It has simply become a silly habit, this jotting down of idle words. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
Henry was sitting at the disordered dinner table jotting down notes. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
The father sits on the chaise lounge, jotting notes down in his journal. From Wordnik.com. [Like Water] Reference
Then he put down the receiver and wrote briefly on his desk jotting pad. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
We are indebted to a brother of the press for the following jotting down. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
That and a narrow reporter's notebook that he was jotting in all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Beginning and End of Comedy] Reference
When jotting down ideas, he did so from right to left, a form of mirror writing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2007] Reference
Rhyme thought they were arguing but Li finally sat back, jotting notes in Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [The Stone Monkey]
"It is peril that is the mother of invention," Tom went on, still jotting down his notes. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
He pulled a little steno pad out of his pocket and started jotting down a note to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
COOPER: After all, you got to make sure the press is jotting down all those talking points. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2005] Reference
By and by, taking his check-book, he began to run through the stubs, jotting figures on a pad. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
I began jotting things down in my journal, because I didn't want to forget any of these people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 23, 2003] Reference
The circumstances of one of them, which have just come to our memory, are perhaps worth jotting down. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Sometimes he will stake out a location for days, snapping photos and jotting down license-plate numbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Crate Crackdown] Reference
While Paul had been telling this, Mr. Giddings had been busy jotting something down in shorthand in a notebook. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
I carried a pen and pad to write I CAN'T TALK, jotting down my destination for cabs I once hailed with a bellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Losing] Reference
Emboldened I withdrew a piece of paper from my pocket and hurriedly scribbled, as if jotting down a hurried note. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
You may remember better by jotting them down in order of the beds, with names and a brief comment on each patient. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference
She wished the cook in the next garden to think that she was jotting down a few things that she wished to remember. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly At Play] Reference
He pulled out his notebook, jotting down a note to speak to the children soon about what would be in store for them. From Wordnik.com. [Vague Obscenities] Reference
Then he took the copy of the code and examined it intently, jotting down phrases here and there in his own notebook. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
That night Preuss came up and stood attention before my fire, where I sat jotting down some memoranda in a note-book. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
And at the same time, I'm also jotting down any lyric ideas I have, titles or just subject matters or things like that. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
Rather than jotting down the purchase number, print the actual receipt for your records, should any discrepancies occur. From Wordnik.com. [11 ways to strike gold on Black Friday] Reference
Mr. Marsh proved to be a good listener, jotting down the items as they were given him, and they made excellent progress. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
The Scot, jotting something in a pocket notebook, left her with an air of elation, and she turned again to the children. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Judd sat quietly by the sidelines, notebook in hand, jotting down different pointers on the game as they occurred to him. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Twice he glanced around him, and then sitting at his table was soon busily employed in jotting down something on his tablets. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
The material for this exercise I got by turning over the reference books and jotting down almost anything that caught my eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
She found a foot ruler, and with that began measuring inside and outside the box, jotting down some figures on a piece of paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
I will, however, give everyone a chance of doing exactly as he pleases by jotting down three different recipes for arsenical soaps. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
He liked to carry this mediaeval Iliad round with him, and, taking it out at propitious places, go jotting his pencil down the page. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Rather than staying awake trying to solve everything, Epstein recommends jotting notes in a journal that you can review in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Cure For EconoSomnia] Reference
Taking up a piece of string, he made certain measurements on the globe, jotting down sundry names and rows of figures on a piece of paper. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
Without giving his friend time to reply he turned once more to his paper, and recommenced jotting down the notes with astonishing rapidity. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
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