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Meanings of blue pencil in English

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Usage of blue pencil in English
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He drew out his blue pencil and wrote on the upper panel:-
Calumet "K"
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He just raised his eyes and went on with his blue pencil.
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
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Surely, Editor Time's blue pencil has dealt kindly with our flame-born poet.
Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
4
Several daubs of wet brick dust and blue pencil marks adorned his face.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
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Then she came to a poem marked with a blue pencil, and cried:
Mary Ware's Promised Land
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There was no power of final rejection in Ballantyne's blue pencil.
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1
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He'd hate to death to push a blue pencil through it and-tryagain.
The Man in the Twilight
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Unless Sally is mistaken, she's wearing Gillian's blue pencil streaked beneath her eyes.
Practical Magic
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See: 'Homage to Dunecrest'-writtenwith a blue pencil on a bit of driftwood.
Bertram Cope's Year
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Brian could write truth for Whitaker with a blue pencil and be damned!
Kenny
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But this time she made it blue , since she was using her blue pencil.
The city of ember: book 1
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The stub of his blue pencil had not figured out a contingency like this.
Cabbages and Kings
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With a blue pencil he had marked out the way they planned to go.
The Desert Valley
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Whereas coarseness-Butat this point Herbert Pembroke had scrawled with a blue pencil: Childish.
The Longest Journey
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He has put his blue pencil up for good now.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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So he took the blue pencil and scribbled that sentence on the back of it.
Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer
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