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sketching-block

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sketch-block.

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Examples

  • A little later, Lady Cooper would he rowed off into the heart of the city, with sketching-block and colours.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • On the frame of his bicycle was an ordinary mackintosh haversack, and, strapped behind the saddle, a paint-box, a folding sketching-stool, and a good-sized sketching-block.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • Ever since, gazing appreciatively through the drawing-room windows at the charming scene outside, he had caught sight of the unforgettable form of Billie, seated in her chair with the sketching-block on her knee, he had realised that he could not go away in silence, leaving Mr. Bennett ignorant of what he was up against.

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • She was wearing a panama, and she carried a sketching-block and camp - stool.

    Love Among the Chickens 1928

  • Billie looked up from her sketching-block with a start.

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • Ever since, gazing appreciatively through the drawing-room windows at the charming scene outside, he had caught sight of the unforgettable form of Billie, seated in her chair with the sketching-block on her knee, he had realised that he could not go away in silence, leaving Mr. Bennett ignorant of what he was up against.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • I watched her while she filled a little mug with water from a little bottle, opened her paint-box, selected a brush, and placed her sketching-block in position.

    Love Among the Chickens 1928

  • And in a deck-chair under the cedar-tree Billie Bennett, with a sketching-block on her knee, was engaged in drawing a picture of the ruined castle.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • Bennett, with a sketching-block on her knee, was engaged in drawing a picture of the ruined castle.

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

  • And in a deck-chair under the cedar-tree Billie Bennett, with a sketching-block on her knee, was engaged in drawing a picture of the ruined castle.

    Three Men and a Maid Wodehouse, P. G. 1922

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