To Otto Braun or anyone else, those marginal scribbles would have been random nonsensical jottings.

The contents were not so much a letter as a wad of random jottings done over a space of days and nights.

The literary miscellany consists of random jottings by the yangban on four broad topics: history, biography, autobiography, and poetic criticism.

Her first three chapters have a traditional sort of narrative, but after that the text degenerates into random jottings, with an anecdote here and a name-drop there.

A number of my contemporaries wrote in free verse, but it became random jottings from their minds.

Trevor studied these random jottings like hieroglyphics, wondering whether he would know Zach better if he could understand them.

Are you saying you won't mind if all your scribbles and random jottings are brought out in a book after your death?

But within a couple of pages, it's back to the hollow sound of random jottings.

Rather than pages of random jottings, however, the surviving books hold carefully planned sequences of single images that together form allegorical narratives.

The random jottings had begun to connect for Darroch.