I have known students to clean their palettes many times a day just to get a little more scrapings on their presses."
"Molly Brown's Orchard Home"
Nell Speed
It was but one glimpse behind the scenes of Paris, in time of war, and in thousands of other rooms, whose window-curtains were drawn to veil their light from hostile aircraft, the people who come to Paris as the great university of intellect and emotion, continued their studies and their way of life, with vibrations of fiddle-strings and scraping of palettes and adventures among books.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
I always imagine that my punishment in another world will be perpetually sharpening pencils and cleaning palettes for unending relays of misguided young people whom I deliberately encouraged in their artistic delusions."
"The Unbearable Bassington"
Saki