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Updated: September 2, 2025
Leslie took for his text has always been a favorite of mine. Do you care to hear some verses I once made upon it?" "Oh, yes, Aunt Faith!" said Hugh and Bessie eagerly. Aunt Faith took a little blank-book from her desk and read as follows: "St. "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world."
They live on faith and the neighbors, but she has sold a pig and sent me part of the money with which to buy everybody in the family a Christmas present. That's all I've made out." Laine took the sheets of paper torn from a blank-book and looked at them under an electric light. "This Syro-Phoenician writing needs what it can't get out here," he said, after a half-minute's pause.
The small blank-book which held these "Meditations" was copied carefully by Simon Bradstreet, and there is little doubt that each of the children did the same, considering it as much theirs as the brother's for whom it was originally intended.
I answered promptly and boldly, "Blank verse is like a blank-book; there is nothing in it, not even feet," and looked around for admiration, but only saw disapproval written everywhere, and Mr. Longfellow, looking very grave, passed on to the next girl. I never felt so ashamed in my life. Mr.
"Oh dear me! if I had only a chariot and four to go down with, and somebody to dress me and find my boots and my hat and my gloves, then it would have been worth while to go. I mean to make out a list of wishes, in case somebody should grant me the power to have them." She took out a little blank-book from her pocket, and began to write down: A chariot and four, man to drive, striped afghan, etc.
Lott retired on account of ill health, and the firm became Sanford & Hayward, which it has ever since remained, and which has steadily built up a large and profitable blank-book and lithographing business. From boyhood Mr. Hayward had a taste for military studies, and he was early connected with the military organizations of the city.
The host, honest Dominico Vincenzo Bifulco, will gladly corroborate the statement by bringing out for inspection a great blank-book in which successive companies of his guests from the laboratory have scrawled their names, written epigrams, or made clever sketches.
The son of one of my friends had found it in an old chest, when he was playing in the attic of The Three Kings. It was written in a discoloured blank-book, which had escaped the devastations of the mice and insects, because it had lain under a pile of aromatic herbs and drugs that had probably belonged to the shop of the Court apothecary.
A beggar of an Arab used to pray on his rug in front of my door.... In rummaging about I found this." He held up the blank-book. "I looked for an address, meaning to post it to its owner but there was no address and only given names there's not a surname between these covers. Some servant must have found it in a vacated room and later left it in the one to which I had fallen heir.
The janitor cast his eye over the leather-covered book of poems when I asked what he thought of it. "Nothin' much," he said. "You goin' to keep a diary?" "What do you mean?" I asked. "Why, when I sees people with handsome blank books like that I allus supposes that's their object." Blank-book indeed! And yet, perhaps, he was not wrong. I did not question it, but handed him the Bragdon Hamlet.
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