I have now covered close upon a whole two sheets of
notepaper, though I ought long ago to have been starting for the office.
With a half-sheet of
notepaper and a pencil, he had mapped out a road which had made one, at least, of the two surveyors thoughtful, and had largely increased his respect for the English capitalist.
He searched amongst the papers on his desk and brought out at last a flimsy half-sheet of
notepaper which he studied carefully.
When in her boudoir, she wrote a note, taking so much trouble over it that she destroyed, and rewrote, till her dainty waste-basket was half-full of torn sheets of
notepaper. When quite satisfied, she copied out the last sheet afresh, and then carefully burned all the spoiled fragments.
The following words were written upon a sheet of the Holland House
notepaper in the same peculiar coloured crayon.
The black drew a scrap of
notepaper from under his belt and passed it over.
Here is the letter which I had this morning acknowledging my assistance." He tossed over, as he spoke, a crumpled sheet of foreign
notepaper. I glanced my eyes down it, catching a profusion of notes of admiration, with stray "magnifiques," "coup-de-maitres," and "tours-de-force," all testifying to the ardent admiration of the Frenchman.
Write out on a sheet of
notepaper what you want and my servant will take a cab and bring the things back to you."
"This is from Dicky!" she exclaimed, glancing it through quickly,--"Savoy
notepaper, too, so I suppose he has been here.
It contained a half-sheet of
notepaper, which I unfolded with a queer sense of dealing with the uncanny, but with- out any excitement as people meet and do ex- traordinary things in a dream.
There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle, deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey,
notepaper, envelopes, and pens and ink.
At the foot of the ladder he had been pale enough; but when he set foot on the scaffold at the top, his face suddenly became the colour of paper, positively like white
notepaper. His legs must have become suddenly feeble and helpless, and he felt a choking in his throat--you know the sudden feeling one has in moments of terrible fear, when one does not lose one's wits, but is absolutely powerless to move?