bechalked

Example Sentences

• "In short, it was the Freshman recitation room in old D—, and our earliest recollections of college life still cluster fresh around those black walls, all bechalked with geometric cones and pyramids, and mysterious symbols of algebraic lore."
• "At the back — here get a good grip on your nervous centers — stands a double geared piece of infamy, bespattered with filth, becut with obscenity, bechalked with fiendish coarseness, and bepenciled with lewdness from the journals of the infernal regions."
• "The little paper did not die, but “slept," and no great time elapsed before its bechalked shingle was again swinging in the gentle zephyrs which played at times around the hills of Yerba Buena."
• "Go into the wealthiest and gayest quarters of the town and you shall see maidens of fifteen tripping along in scores with their young cheeks bechalked and bedizened in a manner that almost puts to the shame a coryphée of the grand opera."
• "He could merely urge his heavy bulk onward toward the fast fleeing train; and dashed up the platform, overcoat streaming from his arm, coat-tails flying, hat crushed down upon his head, his fat, bechalked legs rumbling heavily after him."
• "This noodle-soup weak "creation" portrays immature adults (a mother who callapses when her son has his first cup of coffee, a bechalked female teacher who couldn't count her way out or a wet paper bag, an eccentric, slightly-left-of-Hungarian professor nobody would want to know) and has an insipid "cute" plot (a search for the egg-laying Noch Ness monster, nicknamed Nessie")."