To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. From LearnThat.org. [J. Jenkins]
The words were scribbled in pencil. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This artist's favorite medium is pencil. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An eyebrow pencil. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He does the core artwork in pencil (hence the name). From Wordnik.com. [Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It was written hurriedly in pencil, and ran as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective] Reference
Draft your letter in pencil, leaving every other line blank. From Wordnik.com. [Letter Writing: Write Formal & Informal Letters & Notes « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
I will start jotting notes in pencil in a loose-leaf binder. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Women: Lois McMaster Bujold (part the 1st)] Reference
Her university texts, with notes scribbled in pencil or biro. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig] Reference
After a while, we'd get letters written in pencil, then in ink. From Wordnik.com. [Stan Lee, Mastermind Of The Marvel Universe] Reference
And then doing revisions in pencil so I can tell the difference. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » It’s YOUR Turn: Take Five] Reference
Some say like trying to hold your pencil from the eraser and write. From Wordnik.com. [I have shot both belted and non-belted cartridges for decades with equal satisfaction and functionality.] Reference
Just make the rule in pencil ... they are easier to change that way. From Wordnik.com. [Schneider: Gas tax suspension proves popular] Reference
July 7th, 2008 at 6: 44 am you are a true master in pencil sketching. From Wordnik.com. [Intricate Pencil Carvings] Reference
Dearest Mary, - Though I still write to you in pencil I have progressed. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The letter I kept was one written in pencil on a sheet of notebook paper. From Wordnik.com. [“The Love Between the Two Women is Not Normal”] Reference
Shopping list written in pencil on ruled notepaper near a college campus. From Wordnik.com. [Writer's Conference...but where are the writers?] Reference
What's so special about thin pencil lead that it deserves the Nobel Prize?. From Wordnik.com. [Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick] Reference
And there isn't any, save this one little bit written very small in pencil. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives] Reference
Even the temptation of annexing the pencil is removed from your frail humanity. From Wordnik.com. [In Times Like These] Reference
Nelson DeMille: Yes, I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson DeMille - An interview with author] Reference
I sketched the background in pencil, to make the whole thing more Barbarella-esque. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful sad video.] Reference
I particularly applaud "draw your roadmap in pencil" - we should all remember that!. From Wordnik.com. [Women Grow Business » Women Have Always Been Great at Leveraging Community] Reference
I've scrawled in pencil, After the battle notice the pretty Senorita's in this photo. From Wordnik.com. [The One in White] Reference
The inker takes drawings in pencil and - to the superficial eye - "traces" them in ink. From Wordnik.com. [Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
According to an inscription in pencil, a copy of this book was a new year's gift in 1880. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on "Extempore" by Thomas Moore] Reference
Actually, I don't erase any scratch work even when I'm in pencil because it takes too long. From Wordnik.com. [Loosen Up Your Writing Grip To Banish Pain | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
It was a leaf from a note-book on which these words were scrawled in pencil, almost illegibly. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
Lovefoxxx wrote me a personal message (in pencil!) when I bought the CD and Vinyl from Subpop. From Wordnik.com. [fresh, hot Robots for sale! (Music (For Robots))] Reference
Other forms of art are welcome too (digital, black and white in pencil or pen, or bizarre stuff). From Wordnik.com. [We Need Cover Art « Survival By Storytelling Magazine] Reference
If you find it helps you to note down such things on a bit of paper, in pencil, by all means do so. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
Most people don't realize that sending email across the Internet is like sending a postcard written in pencil in the real world. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives] Reference
The Sonnet he mentions is here before me, written in pencil on a scant fragment of paper, but in a calligraphy clear and bold as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Timrod.] Reference
(Many of the Hine prints that came from Walter Rosenblum, Mattis has found, have a cursive signature, in pencil or gray ink, on the back.). From Wordnik.com. [Too Much of a Good Thing] Reference
A pencil is a collection of converging, or diverging rays. From Wordnik.com. [History and Practice of the Art of Photography] Reference
I wouldn't break a pencil and say 'well that's not my thing.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Harrelson] Reference
Later they invented the hair pencil, which is in use to this day. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
Since there's a law against manslaughter, the pencil is my only weapon. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Trail] Reference
Your pencil is your wand; your canvas may raise Utopias fairer than Condorcet dreams of. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
Her nostrils might be measured, she might be subjected to what was called the pencil test. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007] Reference
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