black-lead

I was much struck with the tree and waterfall, and wished myself nearer them; not that I thought of sketch-book or portfolio — for in my younger days misses were not accustomed to black-lead pencils, unless they could use them to some good purpose — but merely to indulge myself with a closer view.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

“Diamonds,” he began — and as he spoke his voice lost its faint flavour of the tramp and assumed something of the easy tone of an educated man — are to be made by throwing carbon out of combination in a suitable flux and under a suitable pressure; the carbon crystallises out, not as black-lead or charcoal-powder, but as small diamonds.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

The authorities were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black-lead pencil, the traces of which could easily be effaced.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

She damped a cloth in the black-lead tin, letting out a creak of coughing as she did so.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

She damped a cloth in the black-lead tin, letting out a creak of coughing as she did so.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Take 1 oz. of camphor, dissolve it in 1 lb. of melted lard; mix with it (after removing the scum) as much fine black-lead as will give it an iron colour; clean the machinery, and smear it with this mixture.

Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

When the guides are wooden, the soft soap need not be added; black-lead made into a paste with water will act admirably.

Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

For use on cams and stamper shanks, which will be harmless should it drop into the mortar or stamper boxes, is graphite (black-lead) and soft soap.

Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

Muster Phiz; and the first artists in pen, ink, black-lead, and box-wood, has been secured to see if any improvements _can_ be made in the interior.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 Various

Budweis has a large, varied and growing industry, which comprises the manufacture of chemicals, matches, paper, machinery, bricks and tiles, corn and saw mills, boat-building, bell-founding and black-lead pencils.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various