On the walls of his 'with-drawing' room, as he called it, he had hung an important reminder, a notice carefully lettered by himself: 'Stop doing, start thinking'.

Carefully lettered signs - the names of villages and the times of Holy Mass -and then the dusty clutter of houses flicked past with seldom any sign of life.

On our little turkeys, I carefully lettered our names then fanned them open and placed one of them before each plate.

Within a few seconds after Burke's keen eyes had begun to scan the carefully lettered words, the writing disappeared completely.

Sam remembered his father standing behind his shoulder monitoring him as he carefully lettered the name of the book onto that now-scuffed piece of board.

Carefully lettered in German on the outside of Temple Beth Shalom, on Route 6 in Mahopac, were such slogans as "We won't die" and "Heil Hitler," according to the congregation's rabbi, Philip Fleischer.

Mr. del Toro's notebooks - as densely lettered and carefully illustrated as a Leonardo codex - are objects of beauty, and he insists on personally creating the many prop books - like the book of spells that pops up in "Pan's Labyrinth" - with his own hand.

At the top of this is a creature like a flea but magnified many times; near the middle is a crowd of struggling figures smaller than the parasite, and, lettered carefully at the bottom, is the word "God."

In spite of the pain, he had been amused by the slogan carefully lettered across the van's back doors: IF EDDIE's ROCKIN', DON'T COME KNOCKIN'.