"Sheet of paper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... temptation of having a look at the little books in blue and green paper covers which were lying on the table with the sweetmeat-bowls and the venerable old missal. They proved to be all French novels done into Spanish, and "Notre-Dame de Paris" was lying open (under a sheet of paper); so I conclude that our visit had interrupted the sub-prior while deep in that ...
— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor
... mysterious message haltingly said, as if the Black Colonel had drilled it into his man, which was, no doubt, the truth. Red Murdo held me out a crumpled sheet of paper. ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne
... was altogether absent from his thoughts. Sometimes his fancy fled away from the sheet of paper before him, and saw strange things. Was this Fionaghal the Fair Stranger—this maiden who had come over the seas to the dark shores of the isles—this king's daughter clad in white, with her yellow hair down to her waist and bands of gold on her wrists? And what does she sing ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... any number of players, and is played with a wooden board which is divided into compartments or pools, and can be bought cheaply at any toy shop for a small sum. Failing a board, use a sheet of paper marked out ...
— My Book of Indoor Games • Clarence Squareman
... forget that a merchant should never sign his name to a blank sheet of paper. "Oh, speak! what ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
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