crayon

I felt it when as a child I picked out the crayons that I thought most closely resembled my skin tone and my father’s and felt great relief that they were, at least, both brown.

That experience of aroma-evoked memory became known as the Proust phenomenon, familiar to anyone who’s lost track of the present after burying their nose in a box of crayons.

Consider a song like “crayon” by G-Dragon, a member of the boy band Big Bang.

A crude label, written in red crayon and held on with tape, read , “Friedrich Wilhelm Ier, der Soldaten König.”

He examined the other coffins, each with its crude red crayon label held on with tape.

He opens a letter from his daughter, scrawled in uneven crayon: “Dear Daddy, can I come see you soon?”

At six, I told my mother - proudly and with half-eaten crayon on my face - that "children were yucky and dogs were better."

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

This crayon "enlargement" presented John with very black skin and spotless white hair.

He used a machine called a physionotrace which enabled him to make profile drawing in white chalk and in crayon.

One certain stroke of the crayon is worth a hundred lines, each approaching the right one.

And with a crayon he made drawings on the wainscot of the room.