"Blotter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that grew outside the window, had been draped over the framed steel engraving of President Davis and his Cabinet upon the wall; and on the top of the big square desk in the middle of the room, where a small section of cleared green-blotter space formed an oasis in a dry and arid desert of cluttered law journals and dusty documents, the morning's mail rested ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... something after he'd gone and looked for his cheque-book. He'd torn out a form, but hadn't filled up the tab. Bob's silly when he's cunning and didn't think about his blotter. The top sheet was nearly clean and I read what he'd written, in ...
— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss
... falls back upon the analogy of perception in general. I seem to perceive by direct inspection that my blotter is green, and that my penholder is longer than my pencil. I do not seek for evidence; I do not have recourse to any chain of reasonings to establish the fact. And I am concerned here with facts, not with some general proposition applicable to many facts. ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton
... names are bein' put on the blotter that I slides out, hunts up a pay station, and gets Mr. Robert on the 'phone. "Better lug along a good-sized roll," says I, after I've explained the case, "and start a lawyer or two this ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... respectable ailment, compels to work recumbently in bed or on sofa. The writer in bed, with ink handy, has only to take up his pad in one hand and his pen in the other, and as sheet after sheet is covered—sheets of paper bien entendu—he tears it off, and dries it at once on the blotter, which forms a portion of the pad. For Mr. GLADSTONE, when he is once again Prime Minister, the Hairless Paper-pad will be invaluable, as he can place it comfortably on his knee, write his despatch to HER MAJESTY, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 12, 1890 • Various
... Demopolis, Ala.—This invention has for its object to provide an improved rolling blotter, which shall be so constructed and arranged that the blotting pads maybe conveniently removed when required, and ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... a fresh penful of ink, squared his elbows, drew closer to the desk, and with a single swift spurt of the pen wrote the last line of his novel, dropping the pen upon the instant and pressing the blotter over the words as though setting a seal of approval upon the ...
— Blix • Frank Norris
... it? What have you found?" Joyce only pointed to a large sheet of paper lying on the blotter. It was yellow with age and covered with writing in faded ink,—writing in a big, round, ...
— The Boarded-Up House • Augusta Huiell Seaman
... they were, and fond of mothering the girls. But now and then one of them would start to weep, cry for an hour together, with her white head on a spotty desk-blotter, till she forgot her homelessness and uselessness. Epidemics of hysteria would spring up sometimes, and women of thirty-five or forty—normally well content—would join the old ladies in sobbing. Una would wonder if she ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... retorted, insolently. He tossed the incriminating little vial carelessly on the blotter of the writing-desk, and when he turned again to the detective his face, with its high, thin, hooked nose and close-drawn brows, was vulture-like in its malevolent intensity. "You don't deserve serious consideration! If you make public such a ridiculous statement, ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... read on a Blotter somewhere that Absence makes the Heart grow fonder, so he played his ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... Marjorie. "I expect it's taken him a long time to write this. We'll buy him a blotter and some fancy paper and envelopes and leave them at the ...
— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... of the ribbon is too flighty for my age. Then he sat down and eat the egg which Ethel had so kindly laid for him. After he had finished his meal he got down and began to write to Bernard Clark he ran up stairs on his fat legs and took out his blotter with a loud sniff and this is ...
— The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan • Daisy Ashford
... leaned back in the chair, and once more regarded my environment. It was a rather large room, dim now, and as solitary as a graveyard after twilight. Before me stood the table, an oblong table covered with brown felt. A blue blotter, of huge dimensions, was spread from end to end; it was a new blotter, not much blurred. Inkstand, pens, paper-weight, calendar, and other trifles of a strictly necessary nature stood upon the blotter. Letters on file, and brokers' ...
— The Gates Between • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... almost daily; My scissors I never can find; And I am the rotter who loses a blotter More often than if he ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... quickly from her blotter. So Bea considered a reckless disregard for books and persons also a quality of genius. Berta felt a slow blush creeping up to her brow at the candid memory of her tendency to bump into things and brush against ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz
... sky drew up the twilight from the east as a blotter draws up ink, and stars were kindling everywhere like tiny signal-fires, and a light wind came out of the murky east and rustled very plaintively in places where the more ambiguous shadows were; and the Foolish Prince shivered, for the air was growing ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... a brush and repeatedly daubed the place. It was like dropping ink on a blotter. The wood sucked up the varnish as a ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... There's a fine virile name for you. George Coxey! How strong that sounds! One of those names that would go equally well in the blue book or the police blotter. ...
— Washington Square Plays - Volume XX, The Drama League Series of Plays • Various
... be prominent in the advertising business, the following would probably create a favorable impression, especially if printed on a blotter or other ...
— Perfect Behavior - A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises • Donald Ogden Stewart |
