slate-pencil

When we came in sight of a town, it looked, to my fancy, like a large drawing on a slate, with abundance of slate-pencil expended on the churches and houses where the snow lay thickest.

The Holly-Tree 2007

When we came in sight of a town, it looked, to my fancy, like a large drawing on a slate, with abundance of slate-pencil expended on the churches and houses where the snow lay thickest.

The Holly-Tree 2007

The nut-crackers played at leap-frog, and the slate-pencil ran about the slate; there was such a noise that the canary woke up and began to talk to them, in poetry too!

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

The incense sickened her and a stray, ragged note from one of the tenors in the choir grated on her ear like the shriek of a slate-pencil.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

A fine, long, new slate-pencil grandly encased for half its length in gold paper.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

The fine, new, long slate-pencil encased in gold paper.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

It was torture to me to have to listen to the grating of a slate-pencil, the filing of a saw, or the scratching of glass.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

The exercises of the conspirators varied from day to day, but consisted mainly of foot-scraping, solos on the slate-pencil, (making it _screech_ on the slate,) falling of heavy books, attacks of coughing, banging of desk-lids, boot-creaking, with sounds as of drawing a cork from time to time, followed by suppressed chuckles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

Foresters chew this tenacious morsel as tars nibble at a bit of oakum, grooms at a straw, Southerns at tobacco, or school-girls at a slate-pencil.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

The incense sickened her and a stray, ragged note from one of the tenors in the choir grated on her ear like the shriek of a slate-pencil.

Flappers and Philosophers 1918