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Pen   /pɛn/   Listen
Pen

noun
1.
A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
2.
An enclosure for confining livestock.
3.
A portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play.  Synonym: playpen.
4.
A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes.  Synonym: penitentiary.
5.
Female swan.
verb
1.
Produce a literary work.  Synonyms: compose, indite, write.  "He wrote four novels"



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"Pen" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Well, in a manner of speakin'. You might say it's my pen-name. Not that I've ever been in the pen—except ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... pen to write to you with a heart laden with trouble. Things have become so bad with me that I do not know where to turn myself unless you can give me comfort. I am beginning to feel how terrible it is to have undertaken the position ...
— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope
... that the man who had been my father's right hand for twenty years had been cheating him all along. We got on well enough as long as I could give all my time in the shop; but he is no good with the pen—all he can do is ...
— When London Burned • G. A. Henty
... the battle pen where Bres, son of Elathan, was, and he made a fierce attack on him and on the men that were guarding him, till he had made an end ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory
... be expected that these many republics, monarchies, aristocracies, or whatever form they may take, will long remain at peace with each other? Ask the muse who presides over the pages of history how often has her pen been called upon to record the circumstance of separate nations, of the same blood and antecedents, lying quietly and peaceably beside each other. Family quarrels are proverbially the most bitter of all on earth, and family hatreds the most unrelenting. It was but the ties ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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