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The notebook in which Roy had been jotting down her thoughts in small, precise handwriting lay open on the table, a fragile intermediary in a nearly century-old debate between giants.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2014

For Joanne's 72-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eva Snapp, had been telling her stories of the Ohio River floods for years, and busy little Joanne had been jotting them down.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had been jotting the callers’ names in Morrie’s small black appointment book.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Beside a sheet of foolscap on which he had been jotting down notes lay in neat piles the typewritten Report of the Forlorn Widows' Fund, the account book and the banker's pass book.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John

He went into details of the new operations, and when he finished Nairn looked up from the figures he had been jotting down.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold