sketch-block

He put his paint-box and sketch-block in, and got in himself, and I stood looking at him, wishing he'd ask me -- when he did.

W. A. G.'s Tale Margaret Turnbull

Thorndyke produced from his bag a small folding camera, a telescopic tripod, a surveyor's measuring-tape, a boxwood scale, and a sketch-block.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

"Explain instantly," I commanded, "or I drop your sketch-block into the very next puddle."

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

"What a beautiful thing she is," said Cromer, as he worked away at his sketch-block.

Patty's Butterfly Days Carolyn Wells 1902

The photographic operations being concluded, he next proceeded, with remarkable skill and rapidity, to lay out on the sketch-block a ground-plan of the room, showing the exact position of the various objects, on a scale of a quarter of an inch to the foot -- a process that the inspector was inclined to view with some impatience.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

He whipped out the sketch-block and small box of colors which he always carries, and began jotting down impressions.

The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

Hortense cast about for just the right point of view, with Carolyn to help on "atmosphere" and two young men to be superserviceable over campstool, sketch-block and box of colors.

Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

It was delicious fooling, and Isobel found a sketch-block and dipped her pen.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

"Time!" she called, tossing the sketch-block over to Jimaboy.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

Sometimes the two families took these excursions in company, sometimes separately, according to their inclinations at the moment; and, whether separately or together, Gaunt usually carried his sketch-block and colours, whilst Henderson always took his specimen box; the one being as enthusiastic an amateur artist as the other was a botanist and chemist.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886