graphite
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Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lignites, and peats!
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
Some of the walls of the Basilica were covered with graphites, that is to say, with inscriptions scratched with the point of a nail or of a knife by loungers on the way.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
Many of these graphites formed simple Greek names Pompaios, Arpokrates, Celsa, etc., or Latin names, or fragments of sentences, curate pecunias, fur es Torque, Rustico feliciter! etc.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
But the graphites of the Basilica merit a moment's attention.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc
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