I have much on my conscience, I want to become
white paper!"
In all the devious tracings the course of a sailing-ship leaves upon the
white paper of a chart she is always aiming for that one little spot - maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, a lighthouse on a bluff, or simply the peaked form of a mountain like an ant-heap afloat upon the waters.
Along the lower edge of each strip was pasted a slip of
white paper. He asked people to pass their hands through their hair (thus collecting upon them a thin coating of the natural oil) and then making a thumb-mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession.
No one, looking at his white hands, with their swollen veins and long fingers, so softly stroking the edges of the
white paper that lay before him, and at the air of weariness with which his head drooped on one side, would have suspected that in a few minutes a torrent of words would flow from his lips that would arouse a fearful storm, set the members shouting and attacking one another, and force the president to call for order.
Thus they stood watching the little bit of
white paper until it finally remained at rest upon the floor just inside the door.
(he was dressed in
white paper), 'ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!'
Besides, he rather liked scratching his royal mark upon the smooth,
white paper. He was quite willing to repeat the performance, and took up the pen which Sam handed him readily.
To them he added a little sugar of milk to increase the bulk, and folded the mixture neatly in a
white paper. Taken by an adult this powder would insure several hours of heavy slumber without danger to the sleeper.
I turned and saw that Flora, whom, ten minutes before, I had established in the schoolroom with a sheet of
white paper, a pencil, and a copy of nice "round o's," now presented herself to view at the open door.
Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of
white paper; and put it into his pocket-book."
You may imagine whether it cleared up the puzzle when, just after she had said she would think of my proposal and without any formal transition, she drew out of her pocket with an embarrassed hand a small object wrapped in crumpled
white paper. She held it there a moment and then she asked, "Do you know much about curiosities?"
I'll give them work to do, and I'll make them so full of the very joy of doing it that they won't have TIME to look at their neighbors' woodboxes!" And he picked up his sermon notes, tore straight through the sheets, and cast them from him, so that on one side of his chair lay "But woe unto you," and on the other, "scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!" while across the smooth
white paper before him his pencil fairly flew--after first drawing one black line through Matthew twenty-third; 13--14 and 23."