Ink-well

After settling into his seat he suddenly finds that there is scarcely any ink in his ink-well, and he promptly takes advantage of the fact to make a journey across the room to procure the ink-pot, […] busily engaged in drawing a head on the brass square of his ink-well.

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(If Mr. Crawford has any more tales of lonely parishes in his ink-well, more than one of his readers would be grateful if he would write them out.) Just now the ink-well appears to need replenishing, for “Fair Margaret” is dry and dreggy.

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Having learned in this way how to dip his pen, the pupil should next dip it in his ink-well and write.

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In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics.

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