A note written in red pencil next to the clock radio.
I picked it up and read the word "thanks," written in pencil.
It is written on a bit of paper, in pencil.
On the front, written in soft pencil, was a single word: his name.
By return of post he received this answer written in pencil.
He was given an envelope and told to write his name in pencil on the back of it.
"You know what somebody's written right under that in pencil?"
Some one had written in pencil upon the glass top of the table.
The reason for writing in pencil is that you may change the order.
Go back next day and on the same page margin there will be a phone number written in pencil.