Sketches

Examples

• You will have my sketches, some time or other, to look ator my tour to reador my poem. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Dr. Franklin also planned a boat of this kind in 1785 and illustrated the same by sketches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr. Hale asked to look at their sketches. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I can remember the conversation that passed far more easily than the sketches that I mechanically looked over. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She has already promised some further sketches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was very fond of reading the papers, very fond of making fancy-sketches with a pencil, very fond of nature, very fond of art. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As he watched he took out a notebook from his breast pocket and made several quick line sketches. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He finished these sketches and studied them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Just give us some short sketches of the essentials. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Until the 19th century it was used only in the taking of sketches and scenes on or from the card or glass on which the reflection was thrown. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I have been making some oil-sketches under him, said Will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When Hessian prisoners were kept in the neighborhood the town boys would go out to look at them, and Robert would make sketches of them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is absurd to despair of mankind because of these treaties, or to regard them as anything more than feeble first sketches of a world settlement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Rochester continued--Adele showed me some sketches this morning, which she said were yours. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He requested the proper person on his engineering staff to think this matter up and submit a few sketches of what he would propose to do. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Robert Jordan took out the notebook from his shirt pocket and showed them the sketches. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Taking one of the laboratory note-books, he will write in it a memorandum of the experiments to be tried, illustrated, if necessary, by sketches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We reserve our opinion of these sketches. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Good, bad, or indifferent, she said, the pupil's sketches must pass through the fiery ordeal of the master's judgment--and there's an end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The personal appearance of Eliza, the character ascribed to her, are sketches drawn from life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I then proposed to occupy myself till dinner-time in drawing some little sketches for her use. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We give here some early sketches, from which we learn of the interest taken by these early men in the bison, horse, ibex, cave bear, and reindeer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At that time I was sent to Ireland to make sketches for certain forthcoming illustrations in the newspaper to which I was attached. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He mentioned the names and titles of all the guests, giving biographical sketches of the principal people. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That may bebut not by sketches in Swisserland. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is an ordinary indication that there has been an interesting meeting when the caretaker about fills a waste-basket with these discarded sketches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His voluminous note-books are a mass of sketches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Typist: Marion