"Jot down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... take it to the small table within the window there. I myself will sit here and jot down some ideas for my dedication which you ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... think that will be necessary. I will write, if you will allow me, just what I want to know, and in two or three minutes he could jot down the information I require. Then I will call again ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... that imperial favourite, or to understand that she ruled their King with a power which no transient fancy for newer faces could undermine. A day or two in the sulks, frowns and mournful looks for gossip Pepys to jot down in his diary, and the next day the sun would be shining again, and the King would be at supper with ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... fixed and the curtains down, examined my hand-lamp, and placed lamps on the reading-desk and mantel-piece. Bronze busts of sages became my solitary companions. The room was long, low and dusky, voluminously and richly hung with draperies at the farther end, where a table stood for the prince to jot down memoranda, and a sofa to incline him to the relaxation of romance-reading. A door at this end led to the sleeping apartments of the West wing of the palace. Where I sat the student had ranges of classical volumes ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... a pause). Well, yes, I think you are doing better. But, in future, give a share of the command to Volunteers pur et simple. And now just jot down what I have further ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 16, 1892 • Various
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