Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pencil filled with a coloring material of varied composition that makes an ink-like mark, which is indelible and can be reproduced in the copying-press.

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Examples

  • So I was given an ink-pencil and I signed my name nice and flowy.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink-pencil between his fingers.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink-pencil between his fingers.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink-pencil between his fingers.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

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