blotting-paper

You must find your own ink. pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair.

Sole Music 2010

Ivanov was sitting back with his legs stretched out, listening and drawing figures on his blotting-paper.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

He smoked and drew figures with his pencil on the blotting-paper.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

A pathetic figure, the sort of guy Harry imagined was never happier than when filling his evenings with a pub quiz, using that blotting-paper mind of his to show others that he wasnt just as wimp.

The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008

If anybody called to see him, he always contrived to be discovered rummaging among his papers, hunting for a stray note or mending a pen; but he spent the whole time in his study on puerilities, reading the newspaper through from end to end, cutting figures out of corks with his penknife, and drawing patterns on his blotting-paper.

Two Poets 2007

He now sat down in my chair, at my blotting-paper and inkstand, with the long walk up his head in accurate perspective before me, as I stood with my back to the fire.

Hunted Down 2007

If anybody called to see him, he always contrived to be discovered rummaging among his papers, hunting for a stray note or mending a pen; but he spent the whole time in his study on puerilities, reading the newspaper through from end to end, cutting figures out of corks with his penknife, and drawing patterns on his blotting-paper.

Two Poets 2007

He now sat down in my chair, at my blotting-paper and inkstand, with the long walk up his head in accurate perspective before me, as I stood with my back to the fire.

Hunted Down 2007

He found a little hard old gentleman seated at a table covered with every variety of sealing-wax, blotting-paper, envelopes, despatch-boxes, green tapers, etc. etc.

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

People in country-houses should be exceedingly careful about their blotting-paper.

The Newcomes 2006