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something of a scribble; doubts for a time

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something of a scribble,
for it may be that after leaving this place
opportunities of writing will be scarce.   ₁

something of a scribble still,
but with practice it would become clear and smooth, Elizabeth felt certain.
At least the boy had settled down enough to begin attempting to write;
she’d had doubts for a time.   ₂

falutin to call it a drawing,
it’s very often something of a scribble
and in looking at it, I remember what I’d noticed when I did it.   ₃

makes its size difficult to gauge;
something of a scribble. A pair ...
two pairs of ...
scratched on to the plaster.
These   ₄
 

sources, from preview snippets and “inside the book” landings —

  1. Frank Ross McGregor (1838-1920), Dearest Susie : A Civil War Infantryman’s Letters to His Sweetheart. Carl E. Hatch, ed. (1971) : 73 : link
  2. Teresa Warfield, Cherokee Rose (Berkley Publishing Group, Jove Edition; 1993) : 24 : link
  3. Colin Wiggins, Frank Auerbach and the National Gallery : Working After the Masters (1995) : 8 : link
  4. unknown article in The Classical Outlook 76:2 (Winter 1999) : 45 : link
     

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