Putting that question, he looked first at the sketch--then at the view which it represented--then back again at the
sketch. The corners of his mouth turned upward with a humorous expression of scorn.
He had
sketched this new pose, when all at once he recalled the face of a shopkeeper of whom he had bought cigars, a vigorous face with a prominent chin, and he
sketched this very face, this chin on to the figure of the man.
Of course I oughtn't to have begun this
sketch without permission.
"Magister praised the sky in that
sketch I made in the park," said Joe.
Hartright, I find myself looking over my
sketches, as I used to look over my lessons when I was a little girl, and when I was sadly afraid that I should turn out not fit to be heard."
'Now,' thought I, 'if I had but a pencil and a morsel of paper, I could make a lovelier
sketch than hers, admitting I had the power to delineate faithfully what is before me.'
In this reconstructed animal of a dead world there was certainly a very great resemblance to the
sketch of the unknown artist.
Let not the reader argue, from any of these evidences of iniquity, that the times of the Puritans were more vicious than our own, when, as we pass along the very street of this
sketch, we discern no badge of infamy on man or woman.
Softened into crayon
sketches, they did better, for the likenesses were good, and Amy's hair, Jo's nose, Meg's mouth, and Laurie's eyes were pronounced `wonderfully fine'.
She produced the roll of
sketches and started to unfold them.
The passages from
Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit.
Mrs Lammle had taken up her parasol from a side table, and stood sketching with it on the pattern of the damask cloth, as she had
sketched on the pattern of Mr Twemlow's papered wall.
He made
sketches of Watson in every conceivable attitude, and Watson was impressed by his talent.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and
sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished
sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt.