I gave this one the full blue-pencil sketch with brush and ink over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustration Friday: Confined] Reference

This is the reason that I can't read a good book without a blue-pencil mindset.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Sure U.S. Teachers Would Do Much Better] Reference

It's not going to be an authorized life, in that Dr. Kissinger's not going to have the right to blue-pencil anything I write.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It] Reference

She doesn't blue-pencil; she just points out perceived deficiencies in the text and then asks me to find ways to sort them out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Editor: surgeon or butcher?] Reference

The editor drew a blue-pencil line through the multiple advice to buy and buy, and initialled the rest of the column for publication.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvis Latte] Reference

I blue-pencil the banks in an environment of a still flat yield curve, which suggests no leverage in net interest margins on loans outstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handicapping The Top 25] Reference

Hey pepole I would like to fame hello i like be given up about a reveal together with girlish pepole, and touch up blue-pencil compress with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Bewley of 'New Moon' on snowboarding, red contact lenses, and close fan encounters in Italy | EW.com] Reference

It contains no hints as to the disposing of manuscript, the vagaries of the blue-pencil, the filing of material, nor the innate perversity of adjectives and adverbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack London: On the Writer's Philosophy of Life] Reference

Perhaps the most obscure blue-pencil wielding titan who guided the careers of talented writers while greatly influencing the reading taste of young readers was Bob Davis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert H. Davis] Reference

I invite PT's many blue-pencil readers to sharpen their pencils -- and wits -- and have a go at the grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. of the flyer and to submit a critique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

And often I have had them blue-pencil wild statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

The total attribute of the blue-pencil man is diplomacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference

I never do, and Harmer has to blue-pencil my copy mercilessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference

Good and true writing no magazine or newspaper editor will blue-pencil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Harvest] Reference

Meet the anonymous editor who plays Miss Manners to the blue-pencil set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

"You blue-pencil out of my poor paragraphs everything that's interesting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uller Uprising] Reference

He demanded somebody who would blue-pencil the interesting sentences in the important letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Opinion] Reference

He used the editorial "blue-pencil" for alteration and condensation with the hand of a master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great God Success] Reference

"Meantime I'll take your advice about my speech, Mac, and blue-pencil the how-to-be-good stuff.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clarion] Reference

In Brussels a German officer tried to blue-pencil a cable Gibson was sending to the State Department.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Allies] Reference

And now the budget will be passed over his veto (I'm guessing this eliminates his ability to blue-pencil anything out of it, too).    From Wordnik.com.  [D-Day] Reference

As for modifying agreements, Texas courts will do so in cases where the noncompete agreements have a so-called blue-pencil provision, Gaswirth says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest from Computerworld] Reference

By exercising his constitutional power to "blue-pencil" out specific items, Arnold Schwarzenegger abolished the Senior Citizens Renters 'Tax Assistance-a.    From Wordnik.com.  [BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News] Reference

She may be a head bell-ringer in the D.A. R. or the blue-pencil Queen of the Golden Pheasants, but in a vast majority of cases she has not the Looks to back up the Title.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ade's Fables] Reference

What are these? "pointing to the blue-pencil marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference

"Because I was sure you'd blue-pencil them out of existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

Yoohoo, if you don’t mind, I could use your blue-pencil advice here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread] Reference

They wouldn’t get half the jokes, and those they did get they’d blue-pencil because Normal People wouldn’t like them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Actually, there IS something else…] Reference

The blue-pencil editors of doom, of course!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

Savitri Era: Beyond blue-pencil skip to main.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond blue-pencil] Reference

The censor continued to blue-pencil.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life]

"I'll blue-pencil my own stuff," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Rebellion] Reference

Beyond blue-pencil.    From Wordnik.com.  [No rupture in Bachelard’s popularity] Reference

"The blue-pencil 3 was an afterthought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference