It was played in the schoolroom and passages with empty ink-pots and balls of paper, in the bedrooms with slippers and sponges, and even in their dreams fellows kicked the bed-clothes off, and woke up with cries of "Goal!" on their lips.

Book-shelves, and cupboards with glass doors, containing geological and other specimens, occupied much of the wall space; while in the centre of the floor stood a large writing-table, covered with a miscellaneous collection of pens, ink-pots, bundles of papers, and a polished mahogany box which could easily be recognized as a microscope-case.

The ink-pots had all been collected, and stood together in a tray on the master's table; fragments of examination papers filled the paper-basket, and were littered here and there about the floor, while some promising Latin scholar had scrawled across the blackboard the well-known words, Dulce Domum.

"Yes, he wants some ink-pots for his post-office shop," was the answer, with the slightly irate addition, "but I wish you'd call it the china factory.

Wilson elsewhere calls them "ink-pot terms.

Nothing could be more charming (or less conducive to a methodical literary morning) than the angel who holds S. Matthew's ink-pot.

Each possesses the instruments of his calling in the shape of a small brass ink-pot, and an oblong box containing a knife, pencil, and several reeds for pens.

But oh, how queer it was they should be pure gold at the roots!she must have dipped them in the ink-pot.

There is gold in her hair, and if you will look very closely you will see that her lashes were pure gold until she dipped them in the ink-pot.

I foresee that very shortly I shall descend again to a pencil, or write my letters with the aid of scratchy pens and fat, respectable ink-pots in the stuffy music-room.

In the ink-pot was ink.

In the second starboard berth was a small table, and on the floor a thick round ink-pot, whose continual rolling on its side made me look down; and there I saw a flat square book with black covers, which curved half-open of itself, for it had been wet and stained.

Lawrence Hall library, in its earlier, wingless character of colossal ink-pot, Jackson Hall and the little magnetic observatory, still standing, completed the catalogue of the college buildings.

Here I must in any event shortly take to the sword, since a beleaguered army has very little need of ink-pots; and shortly I must be slain in some skirmish, dug under the ribs perhaps by a greasy fellow I have never seen.

Pym had a voice that shook his mantelpiece ornaments; he was all on the same scale as his ink-pot.

With natural pride he showed them the ink-pot into which Thomas Sandys had dipped as a boy.

He presented several of them with the ink-pot.

I remember when I first began to haunt that university, eighteen years ago, how amazed I was to see the students huddled into a small space with overcoats and hats on their knees, a note-book on top of them, an ink-pot in one hand and a pen in the other, and, in spite of obstacles, absorbed in the lecture.

Brief History of a Successful Author: From ink-pots to flesh-potsR.R. Kirk.