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Roejean stopped to purchase a pallet-knife; not one of the regular, artist-made tools, but a thin, pliable piece of steel, without handle, which experience taught him was well adapted to his work.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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In such a sketch as the _Memento Mei_, 1505, (_Death_ riding on horseback,) all those who have sense for such things will perceive how the rough paper, combined with the broken charcoal line, lends itself to qualities of a precisely similar nature to those described by Reynolds as obtained by Rembrandt's use of the pallet-knife.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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Rembrandt, in older to take advantage of an accident, appears often to have used the pallet-knife to lay his colours on the canvas instead of the pencil.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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Dr. Percy was going away, but O'Brien got between him and the door, menacing his coat with his pallet-knife covered with oil -- Erasmus stopped.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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