1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law, The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.
1985, w:Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics.
13 May 2011, John Walsh, Beware letters from fictional civil servants, But isn’t a letter on Downing Street-headed writing-paper a serious official document?
2012, w:Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, She wrote in small, barely legible handwriting on blank sheets or on the most narrowly ruled writing-paper she could find, cramming as much as possible on to the page.
