So I had to lay down my pen and go out to the kitchen garden.

He laid down his pen and looked curiously at him.

He had given me to understand that if I consented to lay down my pen, what was past would be forgotten.

He laid down his pen and gave the kind of smile that suggested he'd learned it from a book.

The Princess signed with a flourish, laid down her pen, and sat back.

He signed the entry with a flourish and laid down his pen.

Gardner laid down his pen and looked at me glumly.

Doctor Po laid down his pen, something he had never done before.

"You look like a man who has a great deal to do," said the queen, laying down her pen.

A year and two days later, she laid down her pen, having written the date - 11 October 1928 - as the book's final words.