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Search phrase: pencil

Plays

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PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
King JohnKJ III.i.237With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paintWith slaughters pencill; where reuenge did paint
Love's Labour's LostLLL V.ii.43'Ware pencils, ho! Let me not die your debtor,Ware pensals. How? Let me not die your debtor,
Romeo and JulietRJ I.ii.40yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencilYard, and the Tayler with his Last, the Fisher with his Pensill,
Timon of AthensTim I.i.163He is but outside; these pencilled figures areHe is but out-side: These Pensil'd Figures are
The Two Noble KinsmenTNK V.iii.13Which sometime show well pencilled. Nature nowWhich sometime show well pencild. Nature now

Poems

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PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
The Rape of LucreceLuc.1497 To pencilled pensiveness and coloured sorrow: To pencel'd pensiuenes, & colour'd sorrow,
SonnetsSonn.16.10 Which this (Time's pencil or my pupil pen) Which this (Times pensel or my pupill pen)
SonnetsSonn.101.7 Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; Beautie no pensell, beauties truth to lay:

Glossary

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pencilfinely-pointed paint-brush
pencilledpainted, shown in a painting

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Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
PEN [write]PAINTINGpencil n, pencilled adj

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