memorandum-book

“There is among the ruins of the western end of the Abbey church,” said he, looking up to me, yet keeping the memorandum-book half open, and occasionally glancing at it, as if to refresh his memory,

The Monastery 2008

Vendale stopped, and referred to a memorandum-book by his side.

No Thoroughfare 2007

There is a little memorandum-book in the drawer, in which he enters on one page, the money he receives; on the opposite, the money he takes out: and when I want money, I have recourse to my key.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

And here the Prefect, producing a memorandum-book, proceeded to read aloud a minute account of the internal, and especially of the external appearance of the missing document.

The Purloined Letter 2006

* The Lady mentions, in her memorandum-book, that she had no other way, as is apprehended, to save herself from instant dishonour, but by making this concession.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Beneath the shade of this tree I reposed myself a little, read some of Milton, and made a note in my memorandum-book that I would remember this tree, which had so charitably and hospitably received under its shade a weary traveller.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

Yet I have sometimes seen some members draw a kind of memorandum-book out of their pockets, like a candidate who is at a loss in his sermon.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

Your kind present of the garnet bracelets, I shall keep as carefully as I preserve my own life; and I beg you will accept, in return, my heart-housewife, with the tortoise-shell memorandum-book, as a trifling pledge of my unalterable affection.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Bozzle copying down the figures painfully from his memorandum-book, with his head much inclined on one side.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

Very likely Falsten wrote them upon a leaf torn from his memorandum-book.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003