单词 | copybook |
例句 | “You could just rest, honey. You could write some stuff in your little copybooks.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From her pocket she drew three precious objects that had required some ingenuity to gather, a partly used copybook from her trunk, a small bottle of ink, and a quill pen. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The first is an ordinary school copybook with twenty pages, written in a child’s delicate calligraphy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During recess the teachers locked themselves up in their office with the shelves of books, copybooks, inks from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end,” he said dolefully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I says, ‘My boy says I’m the one stopping him from writing in his copybooks. He’s been writing on this story for almost five years.’ A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, remembering, she looked back at the copybook. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of the pandemonium Gershom Bulkeley quietly reached for the copybook, studied it carefully, and turned a shrewd, deliberative eye upon Kit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The magistrate accepted the copybook reluctantly, as though it were tainted. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He’s making a determined effort to remove the blots from his copybook and keep his affairs in order. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Justin Peck’s 19-minute “Belles-Lettres,” a smartly organized but deeply confused piece to music by César Franck, showed complex energies trying uncertainly to erupt out of copybook Romanticism. City Ballet Features Works by Christopher Wheeldon and Troy Schumacher 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z This funny, stylish, satirical, gripping story about what happens to MI5 spooks who blot their copybooks by, say, leaving sensitive material in red folders marked "HMG TOP SECRET" on the tube is Herron's sixth novel. Audiobook review roundup 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Any fears that the Irish/Canadian production might sully its copybook with gravitas, restraint or historical integrity are dispelled within seconds of tomorrow's opening credits. The Tudors: who said history was dull? 2011-01-21T15:09:16Z The presenters haven't gleefully laid into the government as much since the Tories were elected, and the whole palaver over the unmasking of The Stig put a permanent blot on the Top Gear copybook. Why Top Gear has stalled 2011-02-28T10:18:16Z The truth which this book lays down, and the precepts it offers, are as simple as the copybook and as universal as humanity. Review: ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ by Dale Carnegie 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Scratching, sighing, giggling, they leaned their bare brown backs over marbled copybooks, Chief tablets. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Verstappen's win was copybook after a brief challenge from Norris in the opening laps. Verstappen wins from Norris in Sao Paulo 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Among Burke's epigrams are such copybook maxims as "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z By losing two successive finals of the World Test Championship, however, India have blotted their copybook somewhat. WTC final: Why has India stopped winning ICC tournaments? 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The oil boom smudged its copybook when the Julian Petroleum swindle, with its Ponzi schemes and watered stocks, took down famous Angelenos and small-time investors. The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago in 1923, the year of L.A.'s 'Big Bang' 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z A supremely gifted individual who was also all about the team - not winning a World Cup with his band of ludicrously good Dutch brothers in the 1970s may be the only blot on his copybook. Pele at 80: Where does he rank among the GOATs? 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Assuming this demonstration mission is completed successfully with a copybook splashdown, Nasa will move forward with routine, "operational" SpaceX flights, perhaps as early as the end of September. Nasa astronauts set for ocean splashdown 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The latter is thought by some to be quite the blot on the Saudi copybook. TV piracy hits Saudi Newcastle takeover – not the beheadings and crucifixions then? | Marina Hyde 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Whether or not he addresses the criticism, the song is a blot on his copybook; and a rare mis-step for a singer who's always strived to be on the right side of public opinion. Liam Payne on alcohol: 'My family were very worried' 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z A red card against Leicester, his second yellow card earned for an embarrassing dive, is the only significant blot on his copybook. From Craig Cathcart to André Gomes: 10 underrated Premier League players 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The Badger’s response was to win the bunch sprint on the Champs Élysées, but this is not one from the Froome copybook. Chris Froome wins fourth Tour de France after Champs Élysées procession 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The less-than-warm welcome afforded Lyon’s players is far from the only blot on the Bastia hardcore’s copybook in a season repeatedly marred by trouble. Bastia, the Corsican club with an insatiable appetite for self-destruction | Barry Glendenning 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The only blot on the unwelcome lodger's copybook was 500 plastic bottles which appeared to be full of urine, police say. Man lived above Japanese toilet for three years - BBC News 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z But go back a few generations and you will find school copybooks full of diacritics: role was rôle, and so on. A Brief History of English Spelling Reform 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z It was the nicest room, catching the sun and filled with her girl stuff, her field hockey stick, her perfectly kept marble-backed copybooks. Chris Matthews: Growing up Catholic in Philadelphia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z This is a copybook example of how to monetize an open source project. Elastic Rolls Out Elasticsearch-As-A-Service 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Of course he has blotted his copybook, but I have seen many great drivers make mistakes. Brazil, Schumacher & a big hangover 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z This is copybook text from Governor Glenn Stevens, who also happens to try and talk down his own currency at every opportunity. Enduring U.S. Dollar Lays Sterling Low 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It was a copybook weekend from the German, exactly what he needed to re-establish his position as a credible championship contender in many eyes. 'Ruthless' Rosberg sets up F1 climax 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z In with the books will also be fliers about Ebola, pencils and copybooks. Professor reaches out to students in Liberia 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z He blotted his copybook with a stupid dive over a ruck against France but was otherwise superb, and edges out England's Joe Marler. Jonathan Davies's Six Nations Team of the Tournament 2014-03-17T08:36:02Z There remain question marks over whether he can marry substance with his undoubted style - and blotted his copybook when he was among the on the tour of India. Australia player profiles 2013-07-09T15:39:10Z Each evening, at opposite sides of a metal table, they sat with their textbooks, copybooks, pencils, and erasers, a chess game in progress at the same time. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z Watson seriously blotted his copybook by failing to follow Arthur's instructions in India, and then storming home when he had been dropped with three other offenders – and even wondered aloud about his international future himself. How England and Australia are shaping up as battle for the Ashes approaches 2013-03-27T16:23:35Z Many workers blot their copybook by forgetting that the office party is intended to be a treat and not a form of torture. The Office Holiday Party Survival Guide 2012-12-10T16:00:57Z He saw her bag, looked at her face again, took off his hat shyly and opened a ruled copybook to which a pencil was attached by a length of grimy cotton twine. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z Some of his notes, made in the third year of Meneptah, are entered on the back of his school copybook, which is now in the British Museum. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Rolling sentences, of the copybook, flowed out of him; declamations too vague to be understood were delivered with the vigor of a prophet. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Amanthus, seeing her test her pen and try her ink for the coming ordeal of copybook, laughed in her dimple. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z The bucket that goes down the well too often—you know the old copybook chestnut.” The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Two days afterwards I received a letter, written on copybook paper in a clerkly hand. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z “I’d have them printed on the front page of every copybook laid before a child in school, and I’d have him to learn them as soon as he can lisp.” The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z It was a winter evening two or three years later; she was bending over her writing desk, correcting copybooks, he was sitting in his room computing assessments of property. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z And all the while Emmy Lou had thought the digit on the slate in its day was the thing, and later the copybook, and only yesterday, the conjugation of the verb. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z That was a beautiful ride today, copybook, composed, produced him at the right time. Hayley Turner in Group One triumph as Dream Ahead wins July Cup 2011-07-09T17:10:54Z In Ofcom's eyes they have blotted their copybooks not through any criminous element to their character but because they are tainted by regulatory mismanagement. BSkyB bid: What does Ofcom's 'fit and proper' test mean? The panel's verdict 2011-07-07T13:44:00Z He destroys their copybooks, tears pages from their books, and puts the blame on them. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Well, silence gives consent, as the copybooks say, so I suppose you agree with me. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z At that time his handwriting was so bad that when he began to feed the press, the compositors bought him a copybook and a penholder and begged him to use it. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z The US was the only blot on its copybook, posting a loss of £186m. Fresh & (not) Easy 2011-05-04T23:31:59Z Rag and Tatters, and copybook wisdom, well-thumbed and learnt, and then retailed as the original article. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Unfortunately Lima had already blotted his copybook – which was messy enough anyway, only a couple of months into his British career – with the tackle on the young Leeds forward Chris Clarkson that dominated post-match discussion. Super League Set of Six: Round eight 2011-04-04T11:21:09Z There is now in existence a little copybook on which is written "List of my dolls." In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z The real staple was wholesale stationery; there was an important "line" of copybooks, there was a great deal done with ornamental and decorated albums, and also with pictorial calendars. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z She smiled, and spread the copybook out afresh. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Perhaps there is no more interesting feature of the education of that olden time than the fact that these books which were used as copybooks in the school contain moral lessons. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z The victories in Adelaide and Melbourne have been of copybook quality, as stress-free as any wins can be. Vic Marks on England's Ashes retention 2010-12-29T01:50:45Z Fábregas was less assured in the second half and blotted his copybook with the penalty, while Nasri began like a train and finished completely out of puff. Tottenham's comeback against Arsenal has a distinctly French flavour 2010-11-20T19:17:00Z Earlier this afternoon, Brennan had produced a copybook front-running ride to take the opening race on Frascati Park, emphasising once again the versatility and judgement that have elevated him to jumping's band of elite jockeys. Brennan confident of Imperial success 2010-11-19T19:44:00Z Then the need arose for something suitable to hold the copybook while she traced her first letters. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z They were employed somewhat as we employ copybooks. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z But the established players, despite blotted copybooks, are deeply entrenched. Metro Bank might be on to something 2010-07-28T23:02:00Z Wawrinka had a chance to blot the defending champion's copybook when he went a break up in the second but Federer predictably hit back and secured the set on a tiebreak. Federer makes short work of pal Wawrinka 2010-05-30T16:47:00Z But the England fly-half blotted his copybook moments later when his kick from hand rolled through the in-goal area, handing Blues their best field position of the match back from where the kick was taken. Blues seal historic Euro Cup win 2010-05-23T14:46:00Z Presently the primer was laid aside, and I produced the copybook. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z But AP could have stood for Absolute Perfection as he gave Don't Push It a copybook ride around the 30 daunting Aintree fences to see off the challenge of game runner-up Black Apalachi. The Unreal McCoy 2010-04-10T22:31:00Z “I want to see gold stars on them copybooks next time I come up here.” 2010-02-08T05:00:00Z Their wonder grew greater when, as the bell rang, Elsie was found installed in the little schoolroom, which hitherto had been used chiefly for punishments and doing copybook writing. Deep Moat Grange I am an atheist, I've thrown copybook morals overboard, I am a hard drinker. The Man Who Rose Again I was vastly comforted when I reached this conclusion, and about ten o'clock I armed myself with primer and copybook and hit the trail for heaven. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z No one, as the copybook says justly, may be always wise. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Morality in new and charming mood to-night; turned over a fresh leaf in his copybook; entered upon the chapter headed "Banter;" not only enjoyed himself, but was cause of enjoyment in others. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 Had it been the will of Aphra Orrin at that moment, the opportunity would have been wanting for me to fill this copybook with these notes, to pass the weary time. Deep Moat Grange They wrote articles and other items, prepared illustrations and caricatures and arranged the whole material inside a copybook. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia Here is my postscript: "Kindly forward me by mail to Hebron, at once, a primer and a copybook." A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z He thought that the room, years ago, might have been a fairies’ school-room, for it was strewn with books, slates, and all sorts of copybooks. Mopsa the Fairy Example of early Venetian writing, from a copybook of the 15th century, written with a reed pen. The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. During one of these sittings the Duke de Bordeaux brought his mother a copybook in which his master had written "Very good." The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun There is more wisdom in shutting one’s eyes than your copybook philosophers will allow.” Optimism An Essay Papers, dictionaries, and copybooks strewed the table; it was evident that other pupils had been there before, but that they had abandoned the scene. Under False Pretences A Novel Jack opened a copybook: its pages were headed with maxims, just as ours are, which proved that these fairies must have been superior to such as he had hitherto come among. Mopsa the Fairy Poverty is not all the noble things the copybooks say. Master of the Moondog So the strangers saw that the principle which leads parents to bore their unoffending visitors with copybooks and the 'Battle of Prague,' is applicable to backwood accomplishments also. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement To them all the lines in the copybooks apply unreservedly. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Its residuum of black fluid had been glutinous ever since Miss Julia had known it; ever since she had written, as a student, that Bounty Commanded Esteem all down one page of a copybook. When Ghost Meets Ghost If at first you don't succeed, you know, try, try, try again, as they used to tell us in the copybooks; and I'm not done yet. The Beggar Man It is in all the copybooks that one should die to please his ladylove; and shall a man not go to prison?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) I can remember writing 1799 at the bottom of the page in my copybook; and this is the oldest date which as a date I can recollect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 You remember the old motto we used to write in our copybooks at school long ago—'sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.' The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields And from all these experiments we do at least collect a certain number of general observations, which, though generally consigned to copybooks, are not without value. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies The window crammed with marbles and liquorice and peppermint, and slates and balls and copybooks and hoops and everything that the owner thinks anyone would be in the least likely to buy. Round the Wonderful World A boy was eating peppermints in the shade of his copybook this very night. Frances Kane's Fortune Consider the child beginning for the first time to write in a copybook. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The old copybook maxims recurred to him and were treated with derision. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar For instance, his exclamation, "Cite to me the decisions of the judges of the land: not the judgments of the Chief Justice of Ely, who is fit only to rule a copybook." A Book About Lawyers "There's a part," said Bones—"there's one of the grandest parts that was ever written since Shakespeare shut his little copybook." Bones in London An excellent copybook maxim, but for all purposes of real life—bosh. The Sign of the Spider Then when each copybook is complete—I will let you know—get Leah to copy it out; she writes a very good, legible business hand. The Martian Provide fine old crusted copybook moral sentiments, to suit bourgeois palate: throw in the safe situation of some one concealed, behind door or window, listening to private conversation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 But the fact is that the reason of this copybook couplet is as bad as the rhyme. Penguin Persons & Peppermints As a matter of fact a peculiarity in handwriting is more often cultivated than controlled, many writers regarding a departure from orthodox copybook form as an evidence of an "educated hand." The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents These included school copybooks, invoices, newspapers that were out of date—nothing of any value. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Hausman nearly blotted his copybook by exclaiming, "For God's sake—" He choked that down in time and said, "But it could be centuries before a revival process is perfected, if it ever is." The Stars, My Brothers The gospel comes and says, 'If you love Christ Jesus because you know that He died for you,' then there will be something else than the copybook. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John “The falling out of faithful friends”—as the old copybooks say in elegant Virgilian Latin—“renewing is of love.” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story But it soon appeared that this was an outreaching toward some vague social advantage, and that the actual acquisition through speller and copybook carried him and his children but a little way up. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement In some of the cells, where the inmates are learning to read and write, there is a spelling primer and a copybook for pothooks. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Do you remember the maxim we used to write in copybooks? The Thing from the Lake My friends, we shall all have to take our copybooks to the Master's desk some day. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John He found the two young Maitlands seated at a table from which the cloth had been lifted at one corner to make room for copybooks, ink, pens and reading-books. The Dew of Their Youth Sister Angelica looked up from the copybook she was correcting. Flamsted quarries He started to his feet as he spoke, upsetting the ink-pot over his own copybook and also over Kitty's white-frilled pinafore. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World He had a copybook, made by himself, in which he entered tables of weights and measures and "sums" he had to do. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln So everybody began to think if he had complaints, and Master Mule wrote them into a copybook. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette She gave me an old green copybook filled with short poems, and a prose sketch by itself; I lit a cigar and sat down at my desk to look them over. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) We had half-an-hour for writing our copybooks; that was a time when, pen in hand, I used to become absent-minded and my thoughts wandered hither and thither. My Reminiscences “He’d just remember that old motto we used to write in our copybooks at school, and take it to heart—‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!’ The Boy Scouts of Lenox They also asked for paper, pens and ink, and copybooks. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific It would make her feel like a blot in a fair white copybook, to walk about in it when the beautiful clean snow covered the earth. The Hawthorns A Story about Children I followed her gesture, and saw under her pillows the edges of two more copybooks like the one I had. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) It was a treasure to him; but to the poor wee blind lassie it was no better than an old copybook would have been. Christie Redfern's Troubles “Jolly spree, wasn’t it?” said Parson, when it was all over, fanning himself with a copybook and readjusting his collar. The Willoughby Captains They had tried making soup out of copybook covers, but it wasn’t nourishing, and the soles of their boots which they tried to eat didn’t sit well on their stomachs.” Boycotted And Other Stories He has a book and a copybook And a scholar's companion and a little slate rag. Under the Tree "Suppose I get you the correspondence on that?" says I, and rushes out after the copybook. Torchy, Private Sec. A bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Trite anecdotes were sandwiched between aphorisms of the copybook; and whether anecdote or aphorism, all was delivered with the air of a man surprised by his own profundity. The Four Feathers "Early to bed and early to rise" is a tradition of the copybooks. The President A novel "The virtues of a woman are her wealth and worth," he said sententiously, as though he were quoting a maxim out of a child's copybook. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches What I meant was that familiarity, as the copybooks say, may breed a kind of—well, scarcely contempt——" "Mark," said Carrissima, "the more you say the worse you will make it. Enter Bridget Their copybooks were at first rough scraps of broken pottery on which with sharp nails they learned to scratch letters. Hebrew Life and Times That was an old saying I learned from my copybook, and even in the wilderness it seems to hold true. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Attached to this ball, a paper personage cut out of a copybook cover danced feverishly in space. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air "Or are you resolved to preach copybook moralities at me, such as 'Be good and you will be happy?'" The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches There is also now before me another faded copybook of my early Christ Church days containing ninety-one striking parallel passages between Horace and Holy Writ; some being very remarkable, as Hor. My Life as an Author Finally came copybooks; and yawns and weird rumblings from Mr. Sandsome. Certain Personal Matters Shall we employ an illustration before proceeding?—some sentence easily handled, some commonplace of the moralist, some copybook maxim, I care not what. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 It is time to go to class; with his head hidden in his desk, he turns over all its contents in great haste, upsetting a badly closed ink-bottle over his books and copybooks. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Bending down he took up out of the box a bundle of envelopes, copybooks, and Christmas cards. What Timmy Did They were not set to write exercises before they had got into their copybooks. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Mr. Landor, for instance, who writes as if he had the sky for a copybook and dotted his i's in proportion. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The Marchioness de la Motte, his relative, brought it to me, written out in a charming hand, as much as the copybook would hold; and I got through, I know not how far. English Satires Who has not seen him hunting for a missing exercise in a copybook full of scraps of paper? Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air If he had said, "Be not faithless," or anything in the copybook manner, I should have sat down and resigned myself to solemn despair. The Child of the Dawn All the time I was keeping a diary of my adventures ... in a large, brown copybook, with flexible covers. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative "This looks like a list of copybook maxims for your Dutch friend's advertisement cards...." The Man with the Clubfoot Charles was at the table, ruling a copybook Joe was reading to him, while his mother was spinning in the corner. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader "Thee reading print like the young minister and writing letters like a copybook!" The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill My dear Geoffrey, please send for your soul; it has wandered off somewhere, and I don't like talking to copybooks. Five Little Plays His first practice had been gained in scrawling faces in his copybooks, and expanding the notes of his musical texts into figures with arms and legs. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) His ideas were at once the substance and the inspiration of his music-dramas; but he never dreamed of writing copybook headings. Wagner The lake lay black beneath on a grey world, plain as a blot of ink on a boy's copybook. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 But for several years past Sasha had been repeating the same thing, like a copybook, and when he talked he seemed naïve and queer. The Schoolmaster It is a great moral and physical problem that we want to solve, and Bills and clauses are only so much ink and paper which are ineffective as a schoolboy's copybook. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour “Oh yes, yes!” cried Milly, shutting up her copybook in a great hurry. Milly and Olly Many a time have I written out in my copybook, 'Take care of your Neighbour's Pence, and your own Pounds will Take Care of Themselves.' Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 He will next write a series of words—the good old copybook method with the good old copybook maxims. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul The Ancient Company was penny-wise, but in spite of the copybook line, not pound-foolish, as its dividend paysheets conclusively prove. The New North He made the beach of the river his copybook, and thus he learned to write. Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted The class had just turned in their copybooks with a Latin exercise prepared at home. The Soul of a Child She moved by her well-chosen phrases; they were like rules set in a copybook for her guidance. The Precipice I was always the favourite of my mistress; she used to call me to read and show my copybook to all strangers, who never dismissed me without commendation, and very seldom without a shilling. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler I were just tidying up a bit in the school-house after school were over, and she were looking at some copybooks, when suddenly he marched in at the door, and, 'Hullo, Olive!' he says. The Obstacle Race He brought out from his desk a copybook wherein he had set it all down with the utmost attention to upstrokes and downstrokes and punctuation. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The "shop" was a bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper. Ten Boys from Dickens A consoling scrap of wisdom which unfortunately children do not find written large in their copybooks is that sorrow is as transitory as happiness. The Ghost Ship They brought copybooks with them and a little bottle of ink and a goose quill and wrote down what seemed to be important. The Story of Mankind She always said that she had to buy such a lot of copybooks and things for school. A Young Girl's Diary "I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end," he said dolefully. Little Women It is in all the copybooks that one should die to please his lady-love; and shall a man not go to prison?’ Prince Otto, a Romance After some ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from him, staying in a room--evidently a children's schoolroom--containing globes, forms, and copybooks. The War of the Worlds And the writing is as clear as the print in our copybooks at school. The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island She always carries the copybooks home for her. A Young Girl's Diary The address was written in a round, copybook hand, and it was clear his name must have been copied out of an English law list. The End of Her Honeymoon On the table were an inkstand, a big copybook scribbled all over, a jug of lemonade, a glass, and a morsel of bread. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings He began to spend his time in drawing in his copybooks. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene The great thing for me is for it to be clear, and without any of those new copybook letters with tails, that I don't like. A Desperate Character and Other Stories One always has too little pocket money anyhow, and when one lives at home one's parents know just what copybooks one has. A Young Girl's Diary It was there they filled the copybooks of French exercises from Levizac's Grammar, which Miss Cornelia still carefully preserves in a bureau drawer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Well, good Lord, Ted, we've been engaged eight months already and we aren't getting any furtherer—" "Remember the copybooks, my son. Young People's Pride A Novel Do you fancy that after a whole column spent in stirring men up to fury, a few twaddling copybook headings about 'the sacred duty of order' will lay the storm again? Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography The schoolmaster draws a firm, straight line in the child's copybook; and then the little unaccustomed hand takes up on the second line its attempt, and makes tremulous, wavering pot-hooks and hangers. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah We shall make the corrections and then we shall all begin new copybooks. A Young Girl's Diary It was careful, but perfect, writing, such as one sees in a school copybook. The Call of the Cumberlands For one thing, it has made me—realize," her eyes darkened, "that my time for really being—a woman—not in the copybook sense—is diminishing. Young People's Pride A Novel Put that in your copybook and blot it. Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts He entered for a moment, and found her sitting at a table with a book, which she laid down upon an open copybook diary. Tales of the Wilderness In a copybook, at the age of nine or ten: Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen. he will be good, but god knows when. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Then I was comforted and took heart, and I believe I finished that copybook so well that the teacher gave me the prize. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process It was a bare and dirty room, the windows mostly stopped up with old copybooks and paper, and Nicholas looked with dismay at the old rickety desks and forms. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction The good old copybook maxim, "Virtue is its own reward," must be McNair's epitaph, whilst we cannot help feeling that India could have better spared many a "bigger" man. Memoir of William Watts McNair If the conversation was to consist of copybook maxims, I could match him as long as he pleased. The Little Nugget Miss Day had no sooner seated herself at her desk, than she called, "Elsie, come here and say that lesson; and bring your copybook and slate, that I may examine your work." Elsie Dinsmore But the lines of the copybook thereafter faded into long parallels of never-ending road, over which childish figures seemed to pass sobbing and crying to the night. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers However, the plan is to be tried, and I have promised to start them with books, slates, copybooks, etc. Station Life in New Zealand You are talking a lot of copybook platitudes with which you have allowed your mind to stagnate. Senator North But no, it was characteristic of the man that he preferred this occupation - that he took the utmost pains to write his best copybook hand, and to rule red-ink lines with mathematical accuracy. Catharine Furze A copybook maxim thus became a weapon of tempered steel. A Prisoner in Fairyland You cry if you soil your copybook, don't you? or pinch your hand? The Art of the Story-Teller Scratched table, desks, copybooks, and worn grammars, had more the air of a comfortable occupation than of the shabby haunt of irksome taskwork. The Young Step-Mother Heaps of them repeat copybook platitudes….You're going to wear overalls and get your hands dirty. Youth Challenges "The cold is extreme," he went on in his copybook English by way of explaining these physical symptoms which he saw I had observed. Allan and the Holy Flower "And she has brought out nineteen copybooks full of it," added Armine. Magnum Bonum What other people had done, she, by following the old copybook rules of the honest policy, the early rising, the power of knowledge, the infinite capacity of taking pains that was genius, could do, too. Saturday's Child For silence gives consent," he argued dolefully with himself— "That's copybook truth! God's Good Man When he had no paper he would write on a board, and thus preserve his selections until he secured a copybook. Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life He dried the page with a sheet of thin blottingpaper and carried his copybook back to his bench. Ulysses Mr. Editor, I say," as Lord Fordham's tall figure strode towards them, "she has brought out a dozen clean copybooks. Magnum Bonum —Now that you have signed the petition for universal peace, said Stephen, I suppose you will burn that little copybook I saw in your room. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man And I will explain briefly, too, how it is that this copybook maxim is now for me a practical reality. The Garden of Survival And across the wax-cloth Tilly pushed a copybook, in which she had laboriously inscribed a prim maxim the requisite number of times. Australia Felix Sargent who alone had lingered came forward slowly, showing an open copybook. Ulysses Beginning with lines in copybooks, she got on to writing easy words to dictation. Poor Miss Finch Then Jack Lawton cracked his fingers and Father Arnall looked at his copybook and said: —Right. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The copybooks which you sent me according to my orders are satisfactory. Old Fritz and the New Era He found one of his old copybooks, and began tearing out a leaf. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry You express yourself like a sentence in a copybook. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 “Tell Charles to take these copybooks and this note to the school at once.” Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school The largest I was told contained the complete manuscript of his Memoirs, in forty-eight copybooks. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo It took Nejdanov a long time before he consented, but he gave in at last and began reading aloud out of his copybook. Virgin Soil I noticed that for some days afterwards Veronica displayed a tendency to shutting herself up in the schoolroom with a copybook, and that lead pencils had a way of disappearing from my desk. They and I Not because the copybooks tell you it deserves another, but in spite of that pleasing possibility. The Lost Road She sat down at the table, opened a large copybook, and, taking out Maitre Mouche's letter again from under her pelerine, where she had placed it, looked at it, and began to write. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard His school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs, the windows partly glazed and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon He thrust the copybook into the table drawer and went back to bed. Virgin Soil Ah, yes, it is easy for folks who have had their good time, to prepare copybooks for weary little inkstained fingers, longing for play. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow On the day that any copybook maxim is carried out there will be something like an earthquake on the earth. What's Wrong with the World If I could, by any sort of copybook definition, describe and show the boundaries of myself, I should obviously lose all interest in the subject. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning The children of the Presidio school smirched their copybooks under the awful supervision, and poor Paquita, the prize pupil, failed utterly in that marvelous upstroke when her patron stood beside her. Selected Stories of Bret Harte When I came into the firm I had occasion frequently to examine the letter-press copybook in which Lanier's `abstracts' or reports upon title had been copied. A Biography of Sidney Lanier Morgan pushed a copybook across the table, and he began to read the page, but with something running in his head that made it no sense. The Pupil A pile of copybooks, the work of the Presidio school, lay on the table. Selected Stories of Bret Harte But the lines of the copybook thereafter faded into long parallels of never-ending road, over which childish figures seemed to pass sobbing and crying into the night. Selected Stories of Bret Harte |
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