There were despatch boxes turned upside down, a sea of parchment and
foolscap. In the midst of it all a man deep in thought.
We'll just have to write it out--we can buy
foolscap from the teacher."
The ANZEIGER is an eight-page paper; its page is one inch wider and one inch longer than a
foolscap page; that is to say, the dimensions of its page are somewhere between those of a schoolboy's slate and a lady's pocket handkerchief.
Thomson had risen slowly from his place and, with a sheet of
foolscap in his hand, closely covered with writing, crossed the room.
Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements." Out of the envelope he took a half-sheet of
foolscap paper folded into four.
In less than the time mentioned he was seated again by his companion's side with a square sheet of
foolscap spread out upon the round table.
The elder partner of the firm, however, would allow me only one penny of the charge, and took it upon himself to show in what manner four of the same sized conveniences could be got out of a sheet of
foolscap. But it is needless to say that I stood upon the principle of the thing.
"I don't understand." Councillor Mikulin turned squarely to the table, and taking up some sheets of grey
foolscap dropped them one after another, retaining only the last in his hand.
Mr Swiveller took a large sheet of
foolscap, and with a countenance of profound gravity, began to make a very small note in one corner.
However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of
foolscap paper, I started off for Pope's Court.
He gave it to me to read, and when I handed it back to him with the remark that I accepted its terms, the deputy-Neptune signed it, stamped it with his own exalted hand, folded it in four (it was a sheet of blue
foolscap) and presented it to me--a gift of ex- traordinary potency, for, as I put it in my pocket, my head swam a little.
'Sir, a long list,' replied Riah, taking out a pocket-book, and selecting from its contents a folded paper, which, being unfolded, became a sheet of
foolscap covered with close writing.