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Definition of Pencillings
1. pencilling [n] - See also: pencilling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pencillings
Literary usage of Pencillings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1836)
"It is a collection of ' pencillings,' bearing about the same analogy to a full,
accurate, and instructive book of travels, that the slight sketches in the ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1836)
"By the Author of " pencillings by the \Vay." 3 vols. London : Saunders and Otley.
1836. THESE tales and sketches first appeared in the New Monthly, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"In fine, we believe that unprejudiced readers will rise from a perusal of the
original ' pencillings' with the fixed impression, that although the writer ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1835)
"WILLIS'S pencillings BY THE WAY. THAT we intend to be severe, we acknowledge ;
but, at the same time, we will satisfactorily prove to our readers that Mr. ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1855)
""Parish and other pencillings, by KIRWAN," (New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1854;
12mo., pp. 272,) contains a number of brief articles on miscellaneous ..."
6. The Atlantic Club-book: Being Sketches in Prose and Verse (1834)
"... pencillings BY THE WAY. BY NATHANIEL P. WILLIS. NEW-YORK CITY.—" How it
strikes-a stranger," is always an amusing, though not always a correct light for ..."
7. Children's Ways: Being Selections from the Author's "Studies of Chidhood by James Sully (1907)
"FIRST pencillings. A CHILD'S first attempts at drawing are not art proper, but
a kind of play. As he sits at the table and covers a sheet of paper with ..."
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