Sketching

Examples

• He thought they had come too close to the bridge for safety and when the sketching was finished, he was relieved. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She stood sketching on the table-cloth, with her face clouded and set, and was silent. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I don't know,' Mrs Lammle answers, stopping, and sketching out the pattern of the paper on the wall with the point of her parasol; 'it depends. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• As he says it, Mrs Lammle leaves off sketching, and looks at him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As they approached it, a figure, conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens, was seated on a bench, sketching the old tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• SKETCH-BOOK One morning the sisters were sketching by the side of Willey Water, at the remote end of the lake. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But over-strained eyes caused pen and ink to be laid aside for a bold attempt at poker-sketching. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But you had a bad style of teaching, you know--else this is just the thing for girls--sketching, fine art and so on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She went on sketching; I went on thinking. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• One morning I fell to sketching a face: what sort of a face it was to be, I did not care or know. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But she certainly did grow a little pale and pensive that spring, lost much of her relish for society, and went out sketching alone a good deal. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The evenings which followed the sketching excursions of the afternoon varied, rather than checked, these innocent, these inevitable familiarities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You must not think, reader, that ill sketching Miss Ainley's character I depict a figment of imagination. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Oh, very well; this confounded rain has hindered me from sketching, said Will, feeling so happy that he affected indifference with delightful ease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mrs. Markland had the reputation of sketching very beautifully, and some of the guests prevailed on her to show us her drawings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was one young man sketching his face in a little note-book. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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