The New Haven sharpie was a large, two-masted, flat-bottomed boat, and its use spread southward to the Carolina sounds following the development of the oyster fisheries.
A self-respecting sharpie must feel that he is dressed "down to the bricks"; that his hat, shoes, socks, underwear, linen and even his suspenders are all "sharp stuff".
If I see a fibre, I'll circle it with my green Sharpie.
By morning, I expect to see the heart stickers gone from all jugs, no Lisa Frank merchandise anywhere near the stand, and your name on the sign crossed out to the best of your ability using the black Sharpie from the kitchen drawer with all the takeout menus.
When he came to cash a check, there had been a discreet telephone call, to see if he were some kind of sharpie.
The film was an ironic interlude in Grant's career, coming, as it did, between the cloying whimsey of "Once Upon a Time," in which he was a Broadway sharpie exploiting a boy who had a pet dancing caterpillar, and "Night and Day," the ten-ton Cole Porter musical bio, in which he skittered about as a youthful Yalie before facing life with stoic courage and inscrutable psychic hangups.
"I hope that my book will become this year's New Year's resolution," said David, who was wearing a fuchsia dress and high-heeled black leather boots and was flourishing a Sharpie.
A year and a half ago, with real-estate prices falling, Dmitry Orlov, a forty-six-year-old software engineer from Leningrad, sold his apartment in the Brighton section of Boston, along with most of its contents, and bought a sailboat — an old sharpie made from Douglas-fir marine plywood, on which he and his wife, Natasha, a literary translator, now live, debt-free.
In Old Havana, only part of a popular street painting of Che Guevara, with his long locks and trademark beret, has survived the years; his washed-out mouth and mustache have been filled in with a Sharpie.
After Blade walked over and gave me some well-intentioned and exceptionally filthy advice, I tightened my laces and went home with somebody's silver Sharpie in my pocket.
At this moment, the captain escorted Madoff to the lobster tank, where the unctuous sharpie analyzed the assorted saltwater candidates for potential succulence and pointed to Moscowitz and Silverman.
