"Blotting paper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... imitation coat of mail which looked very much like the real article at a distance, but would have been of about as much use to keep out sword-point or lance-head in the tourneys of the olden time, as so much cobweb or blotting paper. ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... many men laid up, footsore. I should say that the boots supplied to the army are the very worst that soldiers were ever cursed with. They are heavy, they are nearly as hard as iron when the weather is dry, and are as rotten as blotting paper when it is wet. It is quite an accident if a man gets a pair to fit him properly. I believe it would be better if they were trained to march barefooted. Their feet would soon get hardened and, at any rate, ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty
... flat, baking, quivering expanse of alkali the crawling splotch of black showed up as plainly as a blot of ink on a sheet of clean white blotting paper. Peering over the edge of the chassis they ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... hastily among the papers there and upset the ink stand. I jumped back, but not before I had received several large spots of ink on my trousers. He was profuse in his apologies for the accident, and tried to take out the spots with blotting paper. Then at last, when I insisted upon going, he looked out to see whether there was still a light on the stairs, and led me down to the door himself, standing there for some time looking ...
— The Case of the Registered Letter • Augusta Groner
... blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
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