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Pen-and-ink   /pɛn-ənd-ɪŋk/   Listen
Pen-and-ink

noun
1.
A drawing executed with pen and ink.






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"Pen-and-ink" Quotes from Famous Books



... Diagrams, working drawings, floor plans, maps, or pen-and-ink sketches are necessary to illustrate some articles. Articles of practical guidance often need diagrams. Trade papers like to have their articles illustrated with reproductions of record sheets and blanks designed to develop greater efficiency ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... illustrations, the frontispiece is a photographic reproduction of one of Danckaerts's pen-and-ink sketches accompanying the diary. It has never before been photographically reproduced, though lithographed in Mr. Murphy's book. It represents New York from the southeast, as seen in 1680 from Brooklyn Heights, ...
— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts

... came in a note from Lisle himself. On the first page there was a pen-and-ink portrait of the incumbent of St. Sylvester's with a nimbus, and it was elaborately dated "Festival of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

... city firm, then, which, I am happy to say, still flourishes under the able direction of our active successors, I will call—adopting the nomenclature appropriated to us by imaginative ladies and gentlemen who favor the world with fancy pen-and-ink portraits of the lawyer tribe—that of Flint and Sharp; Sharp being myself, and Flint the silver-haired old bachelor we buried a few weeks ...
— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren

... only a few of the gayest and youngest still persevered in that indefatigable waltz, the oval room looking as if a score of bubbles were playing hop and skip,—for in the crinoline expansions the gentlemen's black pen-and-ink outlines were all lost. At length even these went; the music died; its soul went up with a long, broken cry; its body was put piecemeal into several green bags, shouldered by stout Germans, and carried quite out of sight. The servants ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various


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