"Quill pen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... She developed then the "letter-writing habit," which has clung to her through life. The letters of that time were laborious affairs, often consuming days in the writing, commencing even to children, "Respected Daughter," or "Son," and rarely exceeding one or two pages. They were written with a quill pen on foolscap paper, and almost wholly devoted to the weather and the sickness in the family. The amount of the latter would be appalling to modern households. The women's letters were written in infinitesimal characters, it being considered unladylike to write a large hand. ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... the man, not even looking up, but pointing with the feather of his quill pen, then scratching away again as though he would have overtaken the ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... instance, where mention is made of money spent on behalf of one person in his house, he puts at the side of the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn; an entry of the payment of wages to another servant has a jug of ale; another a quill pen; another a couple of brooms, as the housemaid; a fiddle for the dancing master for his daughter; payment made to the sexton or parish-clerk has a representation of the village church by its side, and ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.01.26 • Various
... Mr. Taynton had picked up a quill pen, the same with which he had been writing before, for the nib was ...
— The Blotting Book • E. F. Benson
... bayonet tips of the sentinels outside as they went and came. There were a half-dozen wooden chairs, and on a pine table four candles burning, a bottle of Hollands, a decanter and glasses. In a high-backed chair sat a man with his face to the fire. It was Andre. He was tranquilly sketching, with a quill pen, a likeness of himself. [Footnote: My acquaintance, Captain Tomlinson, has it.] He did not turn or leave off drawing until Captain Tomlinson, one of the officers in charge, seeing me ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell
... Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes as he ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
