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Example sentences for "foolscap"

Lexicographically close words:
foolishest; foolishly; foolishment; foolishness; fools; foor; foorce; foorced; foorth; foorthe
  1. Charles Sumner stated that he covered nineteen pages of foolscap in his effort so to formulate it as to omit the word "male" and, at the same time, secure the ballot for the negro.

  2. They were written with a quill pen on foolscap paper, and almost wholly devoted to the weather and the sickness in the family.

  3. He took from his bag a quantity of foolscap paper and set to work to draft a note to the Prime Minister on the needs and ideas of Irish Labour.

  4. He sat down at his writing table, took from a drawer a bundle of foolscap paper, fitted a new nib to his pen and filled his ink bottle.

  5. With prodigal extravagance he tore up another whole sheet of foolscap and began again.

  6. He covered a sheet of foolscap with a bare--he called it a detached--statement of the facts about Irish lunacy.

  7. And she eagerly broke the seals, and drew forth a sheet of foolscap closely written, to which some other papers were attached by means of a brass fastener.

  8. When the inspector had finished his story he picked up the blue foolscap on which was inscribed the sprawling report of the churchtown sergeant.

  9. Dawfield produced two sheets of foolscap from his desk.

  10. In less than the time mentioned he was seated again by his companion's side with a square sheet of foolscap spread out upon the round table.

  11. Do you know that, apart from endless cables, Washington has favored me with one hundred and forty pages of foolscap all about the events of the week before last?

  12. That female hand took a pen from the green baize table, dipped it in a silver inkstand, and wrote on a quarter of a sheet of foolscap on the blotting-book, "How about the diamond robbery?

  13. No; it is a roll of foolscap conveyed from the Club.

  14. He had worked hard on a bitter novel that would, he imagined, fill men with amazement and women with shame, and when he had completed it, he bound the long, loose sheets of foolscap together and announced that he was now ready to go to London.

  15. He had put his head more than ever on one side by now, so that with one eye he was able to read over what he had just been writing, looking at the foolscap as a thrush contemplates a snail before he attacks it.

  16. The ostrich egg remained motionless; but the scratching of a pen and the slow regular movement of a very plump white hand across a double sheet of foolscap indicated that the room contained human life.

  17. Now he noted some figure on the foolscap at his right, now he appeared to count on his fingers.

  18. Stoner knew how that half-sheet of foolscap had come into his possession.

  19. The half-sheet of foolscap was covered with figures: the figuring extended to the reverse side.

  20. This is a sheet about foolscap size, and its publication is confined to the Metropolitan Police.

  21. Men pore over foolscap sheets of paper with magnifying glasses, comparing, classifying, and checking, day in, day out.

  22. Another plan is to use a portfolio of parchment with an alphabet cut on the leaves, and with guards to receive several leaves of foolscap under each letter.

  23. A very large-sized paper is inconvenient, and foolscap or quarto is the best for constant handling,--all the pages should be of exactly the same size.

  24. For an index which is made straight off at one time, and sent to the printer when finished, foolscap paper is probably the most convenient to use.

  25. This Testament or Promemoria, written on a large foolscap sheet, appears to have been discovered in a mass of loose papers purchased by the elder Artaria at the sale of Beethoven's effects in 1827.

  26. Among the Zmeskall papers in the Royal Imperial Library in Vienna there is a half-sheet of coarse foolscap paper upon which is written with lead-pencil in huge letters by the hand of Beethoven, The Music Count is dismissed with infamy to-day.

  27. This course having been unanimously determined upon as strictly regular, I laid a large folio of foolscap on the writing-table, and the apparition proceeded to put itself in an attitude for careful inspection.

  28. What I saw puzzled me considerably; for beside the paper was a letter of my own that I had sent him on the previous day, while upon the foolscap were many lines of writing in excellent imitation of my own!

  29. A sheet of foolscap lay upon it, and curiosity prompted me to glance at it.

  30. I found six huge cardboard cases, large enough to contain foolscap paper, lettered on the back: 'Grafl.

  31. The next day I bought two sheets of foolscap from the schoolmaster, and after tea I betook myself to the granary, barred the door, and fell to writing my sermon.

  32. In despair I borrowed a few hundred ichibus from Foster, bought a box of cheroots, wrapped a few sheets of foolscap in a newspaper, and got on board on the 12th December just in time.

  33. A neat pile of foolscap covered with shorthand characters indicated early rising and studious method.

  34. This last contained a white solid-looking page of foolscap folded in four, handsomely engraved with the District Attorney's seal.

  35. Both the grey rough paper and the solid-looking page of foolscap contained approximately in the same words the answers to the complaints of Doctor Svetilovitch.

  36. Just as Priscilla's own reflections had taken this turn, she allowed her eye to rest on a half sheet of foolscap that she had last picked up.

  37. Well, I'd like to see you fill ten large foolscap pages proving it.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foolscap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.