Northen hunched forward, scrabbling in his bent and tattered notebook for an empty page.

She writes daily in her journal, a tattered notebook that she carries everywhere.

Lu-Tze pulled a small tattered notebook out of his pocket.

While we watched, a battered wrist watch, a tattered notebook, an old felt hat appeared and disappeared.

Despite the recorder, he continued to make little notations in his tattered notebook.

Without waiting for a response, he moved to the main console, pulling a tattered notebook from the pocket of his coat.

I have a couple of tattered black notebooks filled with names of street contacts.

A pen, one of the new ball-point kind, is poised over a tattered notebook.

In ordinary times, more than 450 teenagers crowd into the shabby high school here, giggling over tattered notebooks and precious dreams.

Joe declared as the four boys continued to stare at the mysterious letters in the tattered notebook.