The drawing had been made with a hard pencil and the eraser had removed the lead, but a well-defined imprint remained.
"The House of a Thousand Candles"
Meredith Nicholson
His little eyes were like steel, humorously glinting gimlets in the process of boring, the old face wrinkling up around them as pliantly as a dough eraser.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
He was accompanied be a throop iv assistants carryin' a camera, a mutoscope, a magic lantern, a tib iv dye, a telescope, a calceem light, a sextant, a compass, a thermometer, a barometer, a thrunkful iv speeches, a duplicate to th' Agyptian obelisk, an ink-eraser, an' a rayceipt f'r makin' goold out iv lead pipe.
"Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen"
Finley Peter Dunne