What is "chalked"

Usage examples of "chalked".

She had further confounded him by proving to him that although he could, with concentration, tell the chalks themselves apart most of the time, he literally could not tell a chalked line of green from one of blue in even the strongest artificial light—and it was not possible to take the finished diagram out into the sun.

Jason allowed her to remain long enough to catch her breath, then crossed the now-superfluous chalked lines to extend a hand to her.

Tiffany milked her out, took the pail back into the dairy, weighed it, chalked up the amount on the slate by the door, and tipped the milk into a big bowl.

Tiffany chalked this up without enthusiasm and stood staring at it, fiddling with the chalk.

The new-comers generally were yet making their first examination of the great spectacle, beginning with the consul and his attendants, when some workmen ran in and commenced to stretch a chalked rope across the arena from balcony to balcony in front of the pillars of the first goal.

Every stall, consequently, was equally distant from the starting-line or chalked rope above mentioned.

Pooley leant forward and chalked a small cross at the base of the water-butt.

Even when chalked up, this still had his opponents believing that he had thrown his shots away.

But she had no time to feel relief, for as she turned toward the beds, she saw the two chalked circles upon the dark wood of one-almost like disembodied eyes that watched her without blinking.

She could not remain in the apartment with those two chalked circles staring at her.

When he really chalked his soles for the job he was an inimitable buffoon.

They had a queer sort of markings on them, the like of which I had never seen, chalked stripes running along their crooked limbs as if they were, in their stark truthfulness, emphasizing the stiff and brittle bones underneath the skin.

The floor inside the chalked magic octogram was going white with frost.

Now, to be sure, Mummy and I had noticed an off odor about the ship from about a mile out, as we were being rowed to it, and had chalked it up to the corsairs’ barbarous ways and overall masculinity.

Eliza, meanwhile, was staring at a wall-chart of exchange rates, reading the names of the coins that had been chalked up there: “Louis d’or, Maximilian d’or, souverain d’or, rand, ducat, Louis franc, Breslau ducat, Schildgroschen, Hohlheller, Schwertgroschen, Oberwehr groschen, Hellengroschen, pfennig, Goldgulden, halberspitzgroschen, Engelsgroschen, Real, Ratswertmark, 2Ž3 thaler, English shilling, ruble, abassid, rupiah .