Someone passes up a pencil stub, but there is no paper to be found.

He pulls the pencil stub out of his ear again.

She took from her bag not the money to pay for pretended flowers, but a pencil stub and a scrap of paper.

But all he found was a greasy pencil stub in the man's right pocket.

Jones had given her a pencil stub, and every time he brought a meal she made a careful mark on the cell wall.

He drew a small black notebook from his pocket and licked a pencil stub.

All from those little things, the biggest of them only half the length of a pencil stub.

The most dangerous thing they found on his person was a two-inch pencil stub.

I picked up a pencil stub and began to print out the narrative for an auto accident.

He was writing with a pencil stub in a thick, cloth-bound book.