However, credit for standardizing papermaking is given to Cai Lun () in 105 CE, an official of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who improved the recipe using tree bark, hemp, and cloth scraps, creating a more durable and scalable writing material.
Very deliberately he settled his glasses astride his hooked nose, took out her manuscripts and began to read—or rather to glance over them, flinging scraps of comments, mingled with grunts, sniffs and hoots, at her as he glanced.
She also wrote several stories—desperate love affairs wherein she struggled heroically against the difficulties of affectionate dialogue; tales of bandits and pirates—Emily liked these because there was no necessity for bandits and pirates to converse lovingly; tragedies of earls and countesses whose conversation she dearly loved to pepper with scraps of French; and a dozen other subjects she didn't know anything about.
She had composed them during the various stormy recesses when it had been impossible to play out of doors and written them down on disreputable scraps of paper borrowed from her mates.
"You make me feel as if I was made up of scraps and patches!
He made an interesting companion, full of facts about strata, outcrops, and breaks, his sole weakness being the habit of quoting extremely sentimental scraps of verse when walking by the sea-shore.
Just then he noticed some scraps of bark around the foot of a tall maple.
Down at Molly's "Now, my dears, I've something very curious to tell you, so listen quietly and then I'll give you your dinners," said Molly, addressing the nine cats who came trooping after her as she went into the shed-chamber with a bowl of milk and a plate of scraps in her hands.
" "Here's a bit o' nice victual, then," said the old woman, handing to Maggie a lump of dry bread, which she had taken from a bag of scraps, and a piece of cold bacon.
But there must be many in our rank who manage with much less: they must do with commoner things, I suppose, and look after the scraps.
s more and more companies look to curb food waste, fruit scraps and ugly pieces of produce that once went into the compost bin or trash can are finding second lives.
The first few batches of pads sold so well that Holley quit his job at the mill and started his own company—Ampad, or the American Pad and Paper Company—to collect scraps from the local mills and manufacture and sell his pads.
The apples display their milliner's scraps of ivory silk, rose-tinged.
Then I left the children to do their own creating, and I spent the next half-hour sorting scraps of paper at the back of the room.
One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor.
It is believed the primitive cultures of Mesopotania could have been brewing malted barley scraps as far back as 10,000 BC but there are no records of it.
People often assumed Amy was disorganized because she had list upon list: scattered Post-it notes, scraps of paper and even messages scrawled on her hand.
" That could be the vending machine, scraps from a meeting.
Recycling or refining companies either collect or purchase tons of this e-waste and industrial scraps.
For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread.
