A glance at this great blackboard will furnish the latest quotations on wheat, oats, barley, flax, corn, etc.
The telegraphic report registers in several instruments attached to the big blackboard that occupies the entire north wall.
All one wall opposite the door was taken up by a great blackboardcovered with chalked figures in columns, and illuminated by a row of overhead gas jets burning under a tin reflector.
Its depreciation touched the lowest point in the history of the Argentine, or of any other country during the second half of the nineteenth century; the blackboard of the Stock Exchange showed an exchange value of 464 per cent.
He talked at the blackboard in a pleasant, very slightly lisping voice with a curious spontaneity, and was sometimes very clumsy in his exposition, and sometimes very vivid.
Across the blackboard the colored chalks flew like flights of variously tinted rockets as diagram after diagram flickered into being.
Verbeck wondered whether he had made a mistake, and he soon found out, for the Black Star turned to the blackboard and wrote rapidly: "Number Four is a woman, and Florida is not her countersign.
The Black Star nodded to the other man and stepped across the room, where there was another small blackboard attached to the wall.
Like a wild thing, she whirled around and rushed back to the blackboard and seized the chalk.
And now he wrote on the blackboard himself: "Why did you not carry out orders?
He stepped back to the blackboard and picked up the chalk again.
Then he went back to the blackboard and stood at attention.
The man before the blackboard stood stiffly and silently, like a soldier at attention.
He faced theblackboard again and wrote rapidly: "You are a blunderer.
Her writing on the blackboard was unmistakably feminine, too.
He went to the blackboard and wrote again: "Are you sure, sir, that these are my orders?
Behind him was the blackboard upon which he wrote orders to those of his band not enough trusted to hear his voice.
When he stood before it he nodded again, and the other picked up the chalk and started to write, and thus they conversed, each writing on his blackboard and erasing after the other had read.
The Black Star knew him for an intruder, and knew also that he must have observed a great deal to be able to don robe and mask and start the blackboard conversation.
Holding the pistol ready beneath his robe, he opened the door and stepped into the room, and stood beside the blackboard as the other man had done.
A helpful series of Blackboard Outline Maps is issued by J.
These are wall maps, printed with paint on blackboard cloth, for use with an ordinary crayon.
If a blackboard were provided in the specifications (which were often oral rather than written), it was perhaps placed in such a position as to be useless.
First, practice with a ruler, blackboard pointer, or any other convenient object, illustrating the different kinds of levers until the principles are familiar.
Let each lever compress the tube a little by weighting one end of it with a blackboard eraser or book of convenient size.
All the set seem accustomed to see a type on the top of an exercise or on the blackboard and to copy this type feverishly a hundred times, thereby to gain many marks and think they have accomplished something.
The blackboard is rough and cracked, and whatever writing is inscribed on it is indiscernible when the lights are on.
The door was open, and Jermyn was standing in front of a large blackboard covered with marks which reminded Trixy of the geometrical puzzles which her father sometimes cut from cardboard for her.
I had had a blackboard prepared, and it was put up now, and the circus began.
After having a sufficient number of answers illustrative of the modesty of Moses put them down on the blackboard thus: Moses was modest, 1.
This can be done best by naming each plague in a single word or brief phrase, as in the Passover Haggadah, and writing them on the blackboard thus: 1.
It might be of advantage to use the blackboard for a graphic illustration of this idea.
The class, freed from any unpleasant nervous tension, could draw this still life without flinching, and if any part was too difficult to draw, then my father would produce a simplified version on the blackboard to be copied instead.
And he would also write on the blackboard any exceptionally difficult but grant-earning words, such as "empyreumatic" or "botryoidal.
Anne, go and stand on the platform in front of the blackboard for the rest of the afternoon.
One morning Gilbert had all his sums done correctly and had his name written on the blackboard on the roll of honor; the next morning Anne, having wrestled wildly with decimals the entire evening before, would be first.
Mr. Phillips took a chalk crayon and wrote on theblackboard above her head.
I learn the proposition off by heart and then he draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up.
The man at the other blackboard turned and regarded Muggs through the slits in his mask.
Landers turned to the blackboard and wrote rapidly.
This rough sketch I am drawing on the blackboard (Fig.
Before filling in the concrete, strips of wood having straight edges on top must be nailed to the stakes on both sides of the walk, as I showed you on the blackboard in Fig.
Theory of screw] That evening George was told to bring his blackboard and equipment into the den, and the father at once began explaining the mechanical qualities of the screw.
Maxim's aero-curve] "If you examine the rough drawing I made for you on the blackboard (Fig.
On the blackboard he drew a rough diagram of a cylinder and valve or steam-chest, with piston and slide-valve, about as shown in Fig.
This arrangement, which I draw on theblackboard herewith, forms a kind of lever of the first or second class.
There were horrid things written on a blackboard about her.
You will just have to say, please, on the blackboard that Betty Vivian is no longer a member of the Specialities.
I was then expelled from the club, sir--that is the only word to use; and the fact was notified on the blackboard in the great hall to-day.
Betty's name was on the blackboard too, and by no means honorably mentioned.
This notice caused flocks of girls to surround the blackboard during the morning, and the news flew like wildfire all over the school.
Then, in presence of the class, let one student draw on the blackboard in presence of the class the boundary lines of the continents; or one the boundary line in Asia; another in Europe; and a third in Africa.
Having done this, look at the blackboard outline at the end of the study and see if you can read the outline of the lesson by the aid of the catch-words and indications which it affords.
Study the lesson until you can read it with the blackboard outline, and then recall it without the outline.
He had the book propped up open at that picture day after day, and kept drawing it over and over on the blackboard and on paper till I was tired of the sight of it.
One of the things I had kept was a great blackboard which papa had made for him.
Only the school porter is there, who laughs at him, and writes his name on the blackboard under the heading "Late.
He said-- "Who wrote that piece of impertinence on the blackboard yesterday?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chalk; ink; material
