Burt L., pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
Myles or Miles c1584–1656, American settler, born in England: military leader in Plymouth Colony.
1425–75; late Middle English; origin uncertain; perhaps stand + dish
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They are addressed to Lady Fanny, who had presented the poet with a standish, and two pens, one of steel and one of gold.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
He prays in his household night and morning, and never went abroad, though but for one night, but he took his write-book, standish, and English New Bible, and Newman's Concordance with him.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
After she had been reading, perhaps an hour, she dipped a pen into the standish on her escritoir, and began to write slowly, as if weighing every word as it dropped from her pen.
From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
Little Shaker work-baskets, elegantly fitted up; scent-bottles; a carved wood letter-holder at Goupil's; a bronze standish representing a country well with pole and bucket.
From The House in Town by Warner, Susan
A small goose-quill, yclep'd a pen, From magazine of standish Drawn forth, 's more dreadful to the Dean, Than any sword we brandish.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst
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