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"Quill" in a Sentence (16 examples)
My quill ran out of ink this morning.
Through a piece of linen he punched holes with a porcupine quill.
Next to Franklin's portrait is a tan quill and bronze-color inkwell, with the Liberty Bell drawn inside.
And when I read some of the said book, I thought about it and decided to translate it into English, and forthwith took a quill and ink and wrote a page or two, which I then examined to make corrections. And when I saw the sophisticated and unusual terms there, I feared it would displease some gentlemen who had lately blamed me, saying that my translations featured too many obscure terms that could not be understood by the common folk, and wanted me to use old and conventional terms in my translations. And I would be happy to satisfy every man, and with that in mind I took an old book and read from it; and certainly its English was so plain and varied that I struggled to understand it. And also my lord abbot of Westminster had recently shown me some texts written in old English, in order to translate them into our current English, and certainly they were written in such a way that they were more akin to German than English, and I could not translate them or make them understandable.
The note was written in a delicate hand with a crow-quill, on primrose-coloured paper, with a lilac seal—the motto "tout à vous;" and the whole with just a faint perfume of jasmine.
He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]
He touched the tender stops of various quills.
His hair still stood up in punk-rock quills and spikes.
The motors are attached to the bogie frames so as to be fully springborne, and drive through quills and flexible couplings to the wheels.
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Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.
Then one of my dogs got quilled, and it happened again a month later. After putting the dog in a headlock, yanking out several dozen quills, and spurting blood all over myself and the decking of the back porch, I at least understood his antiporcupine venom.
Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.
One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation.
Another characteristic of Plains Indians was the fairly strict division between art made and used by men and art made and used by women. Although men and women sometimes cooperated, women usually painted or quilled very balanced, controlled geometric designs on dresses, moccasins, robes, bags, and containers.
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