1 But before he left, he went with me to Yarmouth, to see a little tablet I had put up in the churchyard to the memory of Ham.
2 Mrs. Peniston glanced at the clock, and swallowed a tablet of digitalis.
3 But the mind within was beginning to use it as a mere waste tablet whereon to trace its idiosyncrasies as they developed themselves.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 4 His smiling eyes were fixed on a silver-wrapped tablet of milk chocolate which peeped out of the propagandist's breast-pocket.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 5 The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE QUEEN BEE 6 He then took Franz's tablets out of his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata. 7 Quite sufficient," replied the count, as, taking out his tablets, he wrote down "No.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 38. The Compact. 8 I took the tablets from her hand, and it trembled again, and it trembled more as she took off the chain to which the pencil was attached, and put it in mine.
9 Mr. Jaggers's eyes retired a little deeper into his head when I handed him the tablets, but he presently handed them over to Wemmick, with instructions to draw the check for his signature.
10 So she rubbed them out, and drew little nosegays and likenesses of me and Jip, all over the tablets.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 11 The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.
12 As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here.
13 Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds.