Again and again I noticed, as it were, a 'hungry' glance in his direction; and when, after procuring an inkstand from over the bar, I had ensconced him in a corner, where he was able after a fashion to pen his correspondence, a vivacious and, it seemed to me, somewhat bibulous gentleman in a check suit sidled up to where I stood and introduced himself in that easy way which repeated 'drops' of 'Mountain Dew' are apt to engender.

Luther himself wrote and studied till he saw the Devil; only the great reformer retained enough of his naturally sturdy health and judgment to throw an inkstand at Satan's head,a thing that philosophy has been doing ever since.

There was a period when Keith seriously believed that all specimens of the keramic art were inkstands in disguise.

The great inkstand on the table was made to represent a howitzer, and the count looked as though he were ready to fire it point blank at any intruder.

Brevet Brigadier-General Harney was assigned to the command-in-chief, an officer of a rude force of character, amounting often to brutality, and careless as to those details of military duty which savor more of the accountant's inkstand than of the drum and fife, but ambitious, active, and well acquainted with the character of the service for which he was detailed.

To intimate his secrecy in love-matters, he had an inkstand with a Cupid on it, holding a finger on his lips.