copybooks

out come the copybook maxims.

copybook phrases in the essay

used copybook phrases in the essay.

he blotted his copybook good and proper .

She blotted her copybook when she arrived late for work.

He paid back the money he had stolen, but he had blotted his copybook and couldn’t hope for promotion.

By this time, my little Master Thomas had learned how to write and had written over a number of copybooks.

He thrust the copybook into the table drawer and went back to bed.

During this time, my copybook was the board fence, brick wall, and the pavement; my pen and ink was a lump of chalk.

" I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end, " he said dolefully.