foolscap

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• Papers, notes, and foolscap pages seemed to have burst higgledy-piggledy from each one, obscuring those behind it.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Don Hilarin was sitting at his desk, in typical pose, pen in hand resting on a sheet of foolscap, his gold-rimmed spectacles balanced on his nose.

  Academic text (2007)

• The papers for some of these elections have been up to about foolscap-sized sheets.

  Blog text (8)

• Another letter arrived today," my father said grimly and gestured toward a foolscap lying on the desk blotter.

  Fiction book (1992)

• "No, no, I'm O.K.," Mr. Pete declared irritably, and shook his sheet of foolscap.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Douglass removes the sheet of foolscap from its dainty envelope.

  Fiction book (2001)

• One of the technicians frantically scratches something on a piece of foolscap and waves it at Kittridge: "80 SECONDS."

  Fiction book (1996)

• And the final section of Livre's communication bore the legend, "Requirements during Stay." The particulars filled more than two tightly written foolscap pages and forced the residents of the mansion house to alter their habits dramatically.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Brittle ivory foolscap, red block-letter stamps, browned fountain-pen ink, a black wax seal, cracked through the center.

  Fiction book (1995)

• During the meeting, she took notes on a sheet of foolscap that she had brought along.

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