472 examples of quill in sentences

If I must not, because of my Sex, have this Freedom, but that you will usurp all to your selves; I lay down my Quill, and you shall hear no more of me, no not so much as to make Comparisons, because I will be kinder to my Brothers of the Pen, than they have been to a defenceless Woman; for I am not content to write for a Third day only.

Sometimes the tendon runs down the middle of a muscle, and the fibers run obliquely into it, the tendon resembling the quill in a feather.

To remove fragments of food which have lodged between adjacent teeth, a quill or wooden toothpick should be used.

This tube is from 12 to 14 inches long, about as large as a goose quill, and conveys the secretion of the kidneys to the bladder. 255.

He has heard the hedgehog"grainne oge," he calls him "grunting like a Christian," and is certain that he steals apples by rolling about under an apple tree until there is an apple sticking to every quill.

"Yo're up against the pure quill, feller.

The contralto, who came from Bologna, the city of sausages, gave Margaret a tiny pig made of silver with holes in his back, in which were stuck a number of quill toothpicks.

210 Ne could that painter (had he lived yet) Which pictured Venus with so curious quill That all posteritie admyred it, Have purtray'd this, for all his maistring* skill; Ne

'Twas queintly carried: The stalke pluckt cleanly out, and in the quill This scroll conveyd.

Nor Cupid there less blood doth spill, Butt heads his shafts with chaster love, Not feath'red with a Sparrow's quill Butt of a Dove.

Of this number is the esquire of the quill, for he hath the grudging of history and some yawnings accordingly.

Know you that our first circulating medium was shells, a small perforated shell not unlike a very opaque quill toothpick, tapering from the middle, and cut square at both ends.

The teachers probably could not have passed a normal school examination, but they could do what our graduates now cannot dothat is, make and mend a quill pen.

Those were all the pens we had, and many a time have I chased our geese to get a new quill.

[Illustration: CHASING THE GEESE TO GET A NEW QUILL]

'Ark, of Lynnhaven!'" "Ay, ay," said Richard, loosening the rope a little, in order to speak with greater freedom, and transferring the last morsel of the weed from his box to his mouth, as he answered; "seeing you are an apt scholar, no wonder you make it out so easily, though written by a hand that was always better with a marling-spike than a quill.

Aunt Henshaw, having one afternoon provided me with pen, ink, and paper, and elevated me nicely with the large Bible and my "Pilgrim's Progress," I sat biting the end of my quill, and pondering over some form of commencement.

It is a slender root, an inch or two long and as thick as a goose quill, white in color, and looking like short lengths of spaghetti.

Doesn't it remind you of a feather?" They all agreed that it did, and they passed around Margaret's hat which had a quill stuck in the band, and compared it with the oak leaf.

Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee (A); 10Jun68; R436403. QUILL, LAWRENCE LARKIN.

Picking it up, he whimsically cut it into a quill.

As my father often said, "Better the stroke of the Red Axe than that of the scrivener's goose-quill.

But when the Baltic norther snorts without, and mine ancient thigh-wound twinges down where my hand rests, naturally I have no better resource than to fall to the goose-quill.

Quill By this right arm drawn from thy wonted wing, Write to thy laughing Mother i'thy bloud, That you are powers bely'd, and all your darts Are to be blown away, by men resolv'd, Like dust; I know thou fear'st my words, away. Tigr.

In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds,[Greek: sunetois phonei], it speaks to the intelligent; and Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.

472 examples of  quill  in sentences