chalk-mark

The similarity between the fate of Iranon and the fate of returnees from the Otherworld I'm thinking specifically of Herla's men, but there are others is another chalk-mark for our habit of reading the so-called "Dreamland" stories as "Faërie" stories instead.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Once, you may remember, we discoursed about a chalk-mark on the door.

Roundabout Papers 2006

On the doorpost of the house of a friend of mine, a few inches above the lock, is a little chalk-mark which some sportive boy in passing has probably scratched on the pillar.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The erasure of the chalk-mark outlines of her other life.

Blue Nude Elizabeth Rosner 2006

Well, upon my word and conscience, if things are coming to THIS pass, Mrs. Toddles and Mrs. Doddles, mum, I think I will go up stairs and get a basin and a sponge, and then down stairs and get some hot water; and then I will go and scrub that chalk-mark off my own door with my own hands.

Roundabout Papers 2006

One must certainly draw the line, but while one was about it one should draw it straight: it was a very crooked chalk-mark that would exclude the Countess Gemini.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The movement was as exact as if the leader had drawn a chalk-mark on the ground.

How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

It was as if a wet cloth had swept across a blackboard, erasing a swath of chalk-mark stars.

Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

It was as if a wet cloth had swept across a blackboard, erasing a swath of chalk-mark stars.

Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

The chalk-mark on the bottles was intended to be cabalistically private, but an acquaintance with the occult dialect of Spanish Zingari convinced you that 1/2, meant nothing else than that the bottles represented twelve and a half cents each, with three years interest, -- a fabulous sum, but lavished in a direction where the pledge of a dukedom had not been irrational, if the object could not have been otherwise accomplished.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various