"Quill pen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he thus expressed his commiseration was sitting with his high chair tilted back, with his knees against the edge of his desk, with his hat almost down upon his nose as he looked at his visitors from under it, and he amused himself by cutting up a quill pen into small pieces with his penknife. It was not pleasant to be pitied by such a man as that, and so ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... supplies three respectable newspapers with the terms of abuse and vituperation they use, and she has herself been at Amack as an invited guest; but she was carried out thither, for she does not own a quill pen, nor can she ride. She has told me all about it. Half of what she said is not true, but the other half gives us information enough. When she was out there, the festivities began with a song; each of the guests had written his own song, and each one sang his own song, for he thought ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... an old quill pen. There was nothing remarkable about her except that she had been dipped too deeply into the ink. But she was ...
— The Pink Fairy Book • Various
... flickered at the corners of Shangois's mouth, and he said, with a dry inflection, as he dipped and redipped his quill pen in the inkhorn: ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... as if he had been called, and looked with intentness at a fallen book and upset inkstand. There was a quill pen balancing itself in an absurd manner with its nib stuck in the cane bottom of an overturned chair. He took it out and laid it on the table. He saw his hat in a corner, stooped for it, missed it several times, and then got hold of it, and put it on. There was a little glass ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley |
