I wandered in it, pitching the tabernacle of my thoughts on the lining of the square family-pew, the fidgets of my small brothers, and the horror of knowing that, on the Monday, I should have to write out, from memory,
jottings of the rambling disconnected extempore sermon, which might have had any text but its own, and to stand or fall by the result.
Or Jottings from German Journeyings,--I haven't quite decided yet which."
I'm just jotting down what strikes me in your country, and when I have time shall throw it into book form." She spoke very loud, as English people always do to foreigners.
Here are some
jottings for you to read when I am gone.
The only one of his books still commonly read is the series of 'Essays,' which consist of brief and comparatively informal
jottings on various subjects.
He hastily tore off the cover, opened the journal with nervous precipitation, passed contemptuously over the Paris
jottings, and arriving at the miscellaneous intelligence, stopped with a malicious smile, at a paragraph headed "We hear from Yanina." "Very good," observed Danglars, after having read the paragraph; "here is a little article on Colonel Fernand, which, if I am not mistaken, would render the explanation which the Comte de Morcerf required of me perfectly unnecessary."
While the doctor was
jotting down the result of this experiment, the loud report of a gun was heard close beside him.
There he might be seen
jotting off a sketch with an air of some inspiration; and he was always affable, and one of the easiest of men to fall in talk withal.
"Then we shall have eight dozen altogether, said Ida,
jotting down all her requirements upon a sheet of paper.
He has evidently some deep problem in his mind, for he keeps a little notebook in which he is always
jotting down something.
'It's not long, sir,' said she to Riah, 'and perhaps you wouldn't mind just
jotting it down.' The old man willingly put on his spectacles, and, standing at the little desk in the corner where Miss Abbey filed her receipts and kept her sample phials
'May they obtain a blessed Haj and return home safely,'' he said in his
jottings on his Twitter and Facebook accounts.