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sketches

n. (plural of sketch English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: sketch)

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Sketches (album)

Sketches is the seventeenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released virtually simultaneously with another album, The Ornament Tree.

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He ran quickly through preliminary sketches of Hanus and Malicia in the office headquarters.

He realized that his portfolio and his character sketches of the minor players and of Hanus and Malicia were still in the studio.

As it is the fashion for modern tourists to travel pencil in hand, and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches, I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends.

He turned the pages slowly, checking out the characters in various poses, one leg bopping up and down to the music, his hands in a different time zone, moving with patient slowness through the pencil and charcoal sketches from the weeks before.

Somewhere between sketches four and six, he gave her a skirt and a little sweater.

On the walls all around his drawing board, he taped up individual sketches of the characters.

He flipped through the sketches in the book and played around with ideas lazily in his head, without coming to any conclusions, without defining any sort of plan.

He brought out the character sketches first, one by one, in order of importance, starting with the Headhunter.

He went through the sketches one by one, asking about this one and that, remarking only that the weasel-faced WTO guy would make a great recurring character.

He stood up and tucked sketches and synopsis into his own portfolio and Dan had a moment of panic.

He laid particular stress on her artistic qualities, describing her power with the brush, her water-colour sketches, and also some immensely clever caricatures.

He might have concealed the sketches, but he could not have concealed the bruises, and people were perpetually asking the unhappy General what he was saying, for he spoke to himself as if he were repeating something to them for the tenth time.

He drew forth half a dozen sheets, and showed them sketches that Lady Camper had taken in church, caricaturing him in the sitting down and the standing up.

I should like to take these sketches home with me and compare them again at my leisure.

Those roughly-drawn sketches, that to you suggested terrifying ideas of blood-shedding and violence, to my mind were open to a more peaceful and commonplace explanation.