I may add that I have seen a pencil jotting in Thomason's hand on one of the fly-leaves of his collection as fresh and legible, after 220 years, as if it had been written yesterday.
How much was expected of him may be inferred from a jotting in one of Baillie's letters just after he had gone.
But they both noticed that during the rest of their hike Warde was watchful and preoccupied, occasionally jotting something down but oftener storing it in his clear, fine memory.
As he slowly ticked off the letters of the alphabet and the first ten numerals, Mrs. Morton listened intently, jottingdown the dots and dashes on a bit of paper.
That's forty-eight more," replied Lew, jotting down the number.
And though she was not a regular diarist, she was in the habit of jotting down on sheets of notepaper her engagements, impressions, thoughts, meditations, as also in many cases reports of conversations.
The winter following his death, attending law school at the University of Virginia, I continued its study and practice and found it quite an aid injotting down the lectures.
Several times I found him sitting in the rustic chair by the door jotting down notes for some address or sermon, but never seated on the old stone bench.
With his sleeves rolled up, sitting in the quiet of his room, Bartley spent the afternoon jotting down notes for a story.
Jotting down observations in rapid pencil strokes, Lee thought: "Starvation is producing very interesting results; it's a worthwhile experiment.
But in jotting down these details, true as they are, I seem to myself to be painting fire, with a little snow and saffron mixed on a marble pallet.
He came in looking like a machine, with a note-book in his hand, and stood by the bath side dictating notes to himself and jotting them down.
The adjutant is jotting down the list of casualties in his note-book.
As to the others, which have been the pivots of romance or serious story, they may well lie as they are while they serve my memory in the jotting down of some of these mysteries.
I have said often, in jotting down from my book a few of the most interesting cases which have come to my notice, that I am no detective, nor do I pretend to the smallest gift of foresight above my fellow man.
Just so," said Tipps, jotting down with a pencil on the back of a letter.
I do so love scribbling, and I simply can't help jotting things down when the fit takes me.
For this reason it is desirable that the beginner should pay special heed to the subject, and note to what extent he is making actual selection, or whether he is merely jotting down all and sundry in haphazard unconcern.
As there was nothing the young man could do to assist in the grappling of his sphere by his friends in the boat above, he devoted his time to jotting down a detailed description of these two new beasts and of their behavior.
Without giving his friend time to reply he turned once more to his paper, and recommenced jotting down the notes with astonishing rapidity.
Davy made much of jotting down notes; Landy Spencer sat quietly, his face immobile; Adine Lough went to the window ostensibly to dab on make-up, but really to suppress smiles and stifle laughter.
I am just jotting down some incidents of circus life that the public might want to know.
He went carefully through the pile, jotting occasional comments, judging the results with A, B or C, plus or minus.
This week, in writing a comparison between Hamlet and Antonio, I did succeed in jotting down something, but unfortunately I found that I had said the same many times before, only about different heroes.
Then laying aside the instrument, and wiping off the thick drops of sweat that bedewed his forehead, he began jotting down some figures on a piece of paper.
Pulling out his tablets, he reviewed his calculations regarding the motion of projectiles, their velocities, ranges and paths, their retardations and their accelerations, jotting down the figures with a rapidity wonderful to behold.
Being quite without notes I had almost omitted a jotting about one of Longstreet's brigadiers at Centerville--a marked and peculiar character.
