The reporters, who had obviously feared that nothing new would eventuate, sat up with startled interest, then their pencils flew, as Dundee read the two documents, after he had told when and where he had discovered them.
Penny commanded, as she gathered up pencils to sharpen.
There were not even pencils to fidget about with, and the form felt that it would almost rather have been marched at once to Miss Oakley than have to endure this dreadful inaction any longer.
He embodied his ideas with such despatch and success, that Armenini affirms that he had seen him paint with two pencils at a time, and with a touch not less free, and more correct than Tintoretto.
In one experiment two small pencils of charcoal lightly touching were connected to the ends of a secondary coil.
This varies the pressure between the two pencils of carbon.
He had three pencils beside it--red, green and blue, and these he had used to designate by a sort of railroad signal system the condition of the lines running out of Rockton.
This was duplicated until there were vague red pencils of light piercing the sky from various points of the compass.
Pencils write plainly each act, on the face, Each motive indulged is seen there, No after decision can fully erase The masks faces ever must wear.
And we see on her walls to-day, fixed there by the pencils of Tintoretto and Titian, what was her idea of the art of entertaining.
Should the pencils be intended for drawing architectural plans, or for very fine lines, they must be immersed in melted wax or suet nearly boiling hot, before they are put into the cedar cases.
In calcining thesepencils in the crucible, the contact of air must be carefully excluded, to prevent the lamp-black from being burned away on the surface.
The last sort, which is the one to be considered here, corresponds nearly to the French term crayon, though this includes also pencils made of differently coloured earthy compositions.
The less clay is mixed with the plumbago, and the less the mixture is calcined, the softer are the pencils made of it; the more clay is used the harder are the pencils.
When they have been thus baked, the crucible is to be removed from the fire, and allowed to cool with the pencils in it.
Nothing now remains to be done but to mount the pencils in quill or tin-plate tubes as above described.
When these pencils are intended to draw ornamental subjects with much shading, they should not be dipped as above.
This immersion is best done by heating the pencils first upon a gridiron, and then plunging them into the melted wax or tallow.
The best black-lead pencils of this country are formed of slender parallelopipeds, cut out by a saw from sound pieces of plumbago, which have been previously calcined in close vessels at a bright red heat.
Conte recommends the hardest pencils of the architect to be made of lead melted with some antimony and a little quicksilver.
Muriel went on for some little time arranging her pencilsand indiarubbers in a very discontented and annoyed manner.
Miss Harper never thinks of telling us to sit with our arms folded, or all to open our books at exactly the same moment, and to place our pencils on the right-hand side of our desks.
I exchanged three new lead pencils once for a Japanese stamp, and I asked Mother for an album for my birthday present.
They would look at Isolde much more closely than at the desk and the pens and pencils and the old swivel chair and the faded cushion.
John had put all her pencils in order before he went, and had left her an abundance of copies, marked as she was to take them.
He began to let her draw things from nature; and many a pleasant morning the three went out together with pencils and books and work, and spent hours in the open air.
In his Jubilee Number Mr. PUNCH remarked, "Merely to mention all the bright pens and pencils which have occasionally contributed to my pages would occupy much space.
The first real encounter came between three of the yuk pencilsand a single exploration ship from Terra.
At the approach of the Terran ship, a host of dark slim pencils had lifted abruptly and shot off into the distance.
Always have blank paper and pencils on hand for some of the games or exercises mentioned below.
Provide slates, or paper and pencils may be provided, and the children draw the object or something suggested by its use.
The terminal coronets are peculiar ornaments which protect the distal ends of the styles in the Coeloplegmida, whilst in the Coelotholida these are armed with the usual pencils of spathillae (Pl.
Anchor-pencils gradually tapering from the proximal to the distal end.
The six lower or descending feet are covered with most elegant arborescent pencils or anchor-bearing trees; each terminal branch of a tree is armed with two spathillae, a smaller terminal and a larger below it (figs.
These pencils also are often regularly opposite in pairs, and the pairs alternate in two planes perpendicular one to another (Pl.
Usually they are armed with numerous spines or with elegant pencils of spathillae.
All these apophyses of the terminal coronets as well as the anchor-pencils of the mantle and the finest branches of the tubes, are hollow and filled up by jelly.
The size of the anchor-pencils is nearly equal throughout their entire length.
As the children approach the age of six, they enter the elementary class, where they have slates and pencils and a blackboard, and are taught the elements of reading.
Tearing a blank leaf from the book, he handed that and one of the pencils to John.
While these directions were being given, Captain Marston had drawn a note-book and a couple of lead-pencils from his pocket.
That is Mr. Byrne's record; he is to children what Rosa Bonheur is to animals, save that he uses neither pencils nor brush; he is a veritable artist with the camera.
It did not matter, I was informed,--lead pencils would be almost as serviceable, providing I concentrated my whole attention on each exercise in turn.
They used to play hookey down at Stratton Falls, too, and get the green streaks in the old red sandstone rocks to make slate pencils of, trying them on their teeth to make sure they were soft enough not to scratch their slates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pencils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
