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Examples
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They had brought several presents which they thought would amuse the child during the long hours he probably spent in bed, a jig-saw puzzle, a drawing-slate, a box of coloured chalks, a painting-book, and a lovely volume of new fairy tales.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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I lost to him a good drawing-slate and a figure-4 trap.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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Little Jack was in a corner, busy with a drawing-slate; he turned round as his mother came in.
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"Mamma gave me a drawing-slate on my birthday," I replied, "but Joseph bothered me to lend it to him, and now he's broken the glass.
Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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