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She points to the marginal pencil-mark, which is not longer than the nib of a stub-pen. "I can't make a little black dot like that look like a man." "In this particular sketch, for his purpose, he'd rather look like a dot than a man, I dare say," said Harshaw. "Well, shall I put him in? I can make a note of it on the margin: 'This black dot is Mr. Daly, standing at the spring-head.
What distressed him most was his being so short; he did not mind so much his “hideous” face, as being so short. On the wall in a corner at home he had the year before made a pencil-mark to show his height, and every two months since he anxiously measured himself against it to see how much he had gained. But alas! he grew very slowly, and this sometimes reduced him almost to despair.
The name of the chamber was Peace. There was a pencil-mark against the passage, and I fancy John Wesley put it there. It was a little thing, but it has made me very happy." "I can understand." "God bless you, child! I am sure you can." "He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him." Psa. xci, 15. "Alas for hourly change!
He is gone through the great doorway, and one pencil-mark is rubbed out. There used to be a large hearth in that room, a larger room than in most cottages; and when the fire was lit, and the light shone on the yellowish red brick beneath and the large rafters overhead, it was homely and pleasant. In summer the door was always wide open.
With what an effort we reconcile ourselves to the trite cares and vexed pleasures, "the quotidian ague of frigid impertinences," to which we return! How strong and black stands my pencil-mark in this passage of the poet from whom I have just quoted before !
The men came aft to the mainmast, with Mesty at their head, and answered to their names. As the men passed over, the lieutenant made a pencil-mark against ten of them, who appeared the finest seamen; and, when the roll had been called, he ordered those men to get their bags and go into the boat.
"You will pardon me if I ask for proof?" "Certainly. Choose the name of any one of them you like and send for him. You are at liberty to ask him whether he is pledged to us." The governor drew a pencil-mark through a name. O'Halloran clapped his hands and Rodrigo came into the room. "Rodrigo, the governor desires you to carry a message to Colonel Onate. He is writing it now.
Even the books that lay scattered round were not new works, not those to which we turn to satisfy the curiosity of an hour, or to distract our graver thoughts; they were chiefly either Latin or Italian poets, with many a pencil-mark on the margin; or books which, making severe demand on thought, require slow and frequent perusal, and become companions.
Not a scrap of paper or pencil-mark, just a wad o' winnings with a wang around the middle. 'A Christmas gift for my wife, he yelled. 'How much? I shouted. 'Oh, I dunno whole lot, but it's tied good'; and then a cloud of steam from the cylinder-cocks came between us, and I haven't seen him since.
"There," he said, pointing with his finger, "that's the place they called at Waingapu, in Sumba Island; and this pencil-mark Mr Barber drew to show the track of the ship and the boat afterwards as nearly as he could remember. After leaving Waingapu the ship sailed along this line," pointing with his finger "through Maurissa Strait, up to here.
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