As you read the following paragraphs, you may want to keep pencil and paper handy.

He kept a pad and pencil next to the bed and now he used it to take notes.

The illustrations show front and side views of such an antique wall phone with a small slanted desk surface fitted with two ridges to keep paper and pencil from falling to the floor.

They define Bonnard as an incessant doodler, sharp caricaturist, professional illustrator and astute observer of his surroundings who kept pen and pencil close at hand.

Automatically his hands went to pockets where he usually kept pencil and pad.

Some shot, or situation, or word would strike back through the past and awaken a note long silent, and I generally kept a pad and pencil on the window-sill with the score-sheet, and later, during his play, I would scrawl some reminder that would be precious by and by.

Mrs. Cuming kept paper and pencil by the phone, so she could be sure to jot down the items her son might want in a care package.

Kavivar kept a paper and pencil in his pocket, and when a thought came to his mind he would note it.

I keep pencil and paper next to my bed to write these down, lest my short-term memory lose them before breakfast.