He left Northen muttering and roaring in a whisper over his notebook.

He nodded to his secretary who flipped over her notebook.

Spreading the elastic between thumb and forefinger, he started to slip it over his little notebook.

"Okay," said Bond, a pencil poised obediently over his notebook.

He poised his pen over his notebook as if he'd write it all down again.

He was just puzzling over his notebook again when the door opened without an introductory knock.

She bent her head over her notebook, reluctant to begin.

"Whatever you want me to be," she said softly, flashing small, even teeth as she bent further over her notebook.

But Stark had already bent over his notebook again, and now he was writing faster.

A court stenographer sat at the end of the desk with a stylo poised over his notebook.