glow
giant
slate
choke
pierce
shaky
scrawl
long to do
break loose from
be covered with
whisper in one‘s ear
As much as if…
1.I was fascinated by it as much as if it had been a stick of gold
2.I held it tightly between my toes， and， acting on an impulse， made a wild sort of scribble with it on the slate
3.I had done it！ It had started —the thing that was to give my mind its chance of expressing itself
4.Then the stick of the chalk broke and I was left with a stump