1. "by a long chalk BRITISH by far."
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Angus Stevenson, Oxford Dictionary of English
2. "I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days."
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
3. "Driving, Lambright thought the moon looked like a fingerprint of chalk."
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Elizabeth Strout, The Best American Short Stories 2013
4. "not by a long chalk BRITISH by no means; not at all:"
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Angus Stevenson, Oxford Dictionary of English
5. "Whatever I do right I chalk up to my father’s example. Whatever I do wrong I blame squarely on fate."
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Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
6. "There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water."
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Quote by Janet Frame
7. "They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain"
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Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
8. "I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us"
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Quote by John Geddes
9. "Goddamn. Well, let's call that an experiment and chalk it up to experience. All hail Jill Kismet the scientist."
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Lilith Saintcrow, Night Shift
10. "His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance."
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Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot