Quill-driver

"Quill-driver" in a Sentence (3 examples)

His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane.

Passenger.—What o'clock is it? Mr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.

He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver.

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