Word: blotters
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Eyes for Nipples. When Byron reached Switzerland, he wrote on the hotel blotter after the question Age?: 100. He was 28. But his thick reddish hair was already greying, though "darkened by the lavish use of macassar...
...autumn of 1836, tourists at Chamonix, Switzerland, were puzzled by a mysterious group of seven strangers who wore tight-fitting coats, slouch hats, vast cravats. It was next to impossible to tell which were men and which were women. The hotel blotter did not help. One of the strangers was registered simply as Fellowe; musical philosopher; birthplace-Parnassus; traveling from-Doubt to Truth. Others were registered as the Piffoel family; residence-Nature; Coming from-God; Going to-Heaven; Duration of passport-Eternity...
...wonder which characterized some of my earlier books." Between the covers of Witchcraft he has swept the years' litter of a disordered desk: a theory, anecdotes, old magazine articles, scraps from history, leftover items from former books, newspaper clippings, remarks on extrasensory perception-everything, in fact, but his blotter and pencils...
Chill winds and a new fear swept across Europe last week. Ice spread in the Gulf of Bothnia like ink across a blotter. Along the Westwall it was too cold to fight hard. Dirty ice formed on the Danube, and Rome shivered under sharp blasts from the Apennines...
...loved China. He was like a blotter for the language, and soon he was reading both newspapers and classics. His early changes of post gave him a habit of restlessness from which he has never relaxed: from Peking to bleak Mukden, Russified Harbin, hilly Hankow, busy Shanghai, river-girt Chungking, remote Changsha...