Tablet

Examples

• They had with them a gold tablet and other indications from the Great Khan that must have greatly facilitated their journey. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mrs. Peniston glanced at the clock, and swallowed a tablet of digitalis. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He took a small wooden tablet from the work-table in his shop, and marking certain lines upon it, cut away the wood so that it left a stamp of his wife’s name. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Plato supposes that when the tablet has been made blank the artist will fill in the lineaments of the ideal state. Plato. The Republic.
• But before he left, he went with me to Yarmouth, to see a little tablet I had put up in the churchyard to the memory of Ham. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But the mind within was beginning to use it as a mere waste tablet whereon to trace its idiosyncrasies as they developed themselves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If the mind was a wax tablet to be written upon by objects, there were no limits to the possibility of education by means of the natural environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thus for the burglars is selected, not the eighth tablet, but the one on which is recommended a day of rest from labor; to the happily married is preached the seventh commandment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They will begin by taking the State and the manners of men, from which, as from a tablet, they will rub out the picture, and leave a clean surface. Plato. The Republic.
• Riah drew some folding tablets from his breast and noted it down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Stop,' exclaimed the count, bringing out the tablets once more. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So she rubbed them out, and drew little nosegays and likenesses of me and Jip, all over the tablets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The tablets are made to conform to the rotundity of the ball and set flush with the surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The tablets of the most ancient days of Egypt, yet recovered, show glass blowers at work at their trade--and the names of the first and original inventors are buried in oblivion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr. Pickwick saluted the count with all the reverence due to so great a man, and the count drew forth a set of tablets. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It involved storing a great multitude of earthenware tablets in huge earthenware jars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We will provide ourselves with tablets and a pencil. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The holes for the number tablets are bored and the tablets forced into position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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