Tablets
['tæblɪt]
Examples
- 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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