She makes a jotting and later will pass the word to her staff to quietly look in on the troubled woman.

She looked at the jotting on a faded piece of foolscap.

Greene erased the words and entered a random jotting of his own.

Banks paused and made a jotting in his notebook.

Stute said little, made a jotting or two and finally thanked the Sergeant.

His life was artificial, a construct, a random jotting of the Xeelee.

But at die last minute he fished out a parchment notebook instead, and did his jotting on diat.

Later on, it would be a reporter's brief jotting on a notepad that would set him off.

Their runes might be the personal jotting of some adept who had devised a code for the better keeping of secrets.

We merely find this jotting: 'Parted ye 2d.

Now, put in a more dispassionate frame of mind by his ethnographic jotting, he was willing to admit Scaurus to his side.

What surprised me about this jotting and made me hesitate over it was the fact that it was so uninformative.

As she spoke, she could tell he was listening intently, and every now and then he made a jotting on the pad in front of him.

Now and then, the visitor paused to make a cursory jotting in a notebook, but as the day went on these pauses grew less and less frequent.

"She says her name--" R.C. Buckley examined his jotting.

But for "Organization," a 1944 abstraction not unlike "Autumn Leaves," and a jotting in watercolor about a mountainous landscape (1955-1960), these are black and white lithographs.

And as to the way I amplified the bare jotting of the old mystic - that was quite impossible, and characteristic of a flighty and notional scribbler!

Mr. Carter cites a jotting from Proust's notebook of 1908 in which he announces that he is finally ready "to settle down to a fairly long piece of work."

At this stage, this pleasant if overlong quartet to Schumann's piano score of the same name, is more the equivalent of a notebook jotting than a fully framed picture.

In a diarylike jotting from 1912, Redon wrote: "I notice in a store window a book with the title 'L'Art Social.'

The memoir grew out of his almost random jotting, but it gained direction in 1997 after the death of his father, Norman, known as Nick, a buttoned-down Republican and lifelong Omahan.

Soon, Mr. Tierney's jotting had grown into 28 boxes, an illustration of how consultants take reams of information that can easily overwhelm both corporate and nonprofit managers and reduce it to its basic components, then devise ways to deal with those components efficiently.

I was like a Jot of people who do police work.

Not that it made a jot of difference to him.

She has no heart and does not care a jot for human suffering!

We do not take back one jot of that criticism.

Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready.

How pathetic was all of this, down to the last jot.

But whatever I say will not change this journey one jot.

I would not have you leave out a single jot."

I never lost a jot of my delight in this great park.

My faith has not changed by one jot or title.

Children will not care one jot about any of our caveats.

They care not a jot no matter what they say.

It the government cared a jot for social housing they would start building some again.

There was not a jot of humour in the man.

The world would not care a jot about this.

None of their disabilities holds them back one jot, as you'll see.

Do you imagine a little discomfort matters a jot to me?

Jot tried the doorknob, but it turned in his hand without effect.

Yes, indeed: but not a jot worse than some of their friends came to the very day afterwards.

Getting to the last jot of the census - and it is not quite over - was no easy task.

"Because he didn't care a jot about anyone or anything.

And the extraordinary thing is that I don't remember a single jot about it.

It matters not a jot what the judging panel may say.

"We'll not make a jot of difference by worrying about it.

In the end though, it matters not a jot.

"I can hold it in my head long enough to jot the high points down later."

Right before you go to sleep, jot down the problem or idea you're working on.

If you could just jot down a few ideas that.

Each afternoon, jot down a list of what you want to do for yourself the next day.

If you need statistics, jot them on a little piece of paper.

Alone, finally, he tried to jot down an outline of his day, but even more had left him now.

You must jot it all down upon paper, and let me have a note of the amount.

Maybe I will jot down the contractor's name - just in case.

Each day, jot down your symptoms and the time they occurred.

It is a good idea to jot the points down on paper before you dial the number.

Jot down the key piece of information that each scene gives you.

When did Moses find time to jot down his thoughts?

Review the information regularly and jot down questions you want to ask your doctor.

If they would do no more than jot down a few notes of his daily talk, it might get justice done him.

You'd better jot down anything you can remember from your notes."

I grabbed a pen, ready to jot down what she found out.

Do you carry around a notebook to jot down ideas?

I would just jot down everything that came to mind - a kind of musical diary.

Jot down on paper answers which you think adequately cover all the points.

Should you jot down notes for your presentation to the staff tomorrow?

Students may want to jot down notes during the discussion to help them with their poems.

The children could tote them along and jot down their observations.

In fact, Jack had not moved for the last hour or so except to turn pages and jot down more notes.

Smoke Judy seemed to jot down everything out of the ordinary.

I pretended to jot notes, my hand shaking a little.