Slates
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Examples
- Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But that isn't a good word: he didn't tell them to write on slates. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Who could live to gaze from day to day on bricks and slates who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Merritt