writing-pad

Updated: May 15, 2025

"It's all very well," he pondered, "for a man to be civil all round as I am; but his womankind can always give him away." He closed his note, pushed the writing-pad from him, and, leaning back in his chair, puffed at his cigar. In the moment of reflection, the impression of Alicia's unexplained agitation revived in his memory. "I don't believe," he mused, "that she expected me to say Coxon.

Anthony Hope - Half a Hero: A Novel

Then Mr Boffin, with his stick at his ear, like a Familiar Spirit explaining the office to him, sat staring at a little bookcase of Law Practice and Law Reports, and at a window, and at an empty blue bag, and at a stick of sealing-wax, and a pen, and a box of wafers, and an apple, and a writing-pad all very dusty and at a number of inky smears and blots, and at an imperfectly-disguised gun-case pretending to be something legal, and at an iron box labelled HARMON ESTATE, until Mr Lightwood appeared.

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend