quill pen
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I would exercise my First Amendment right to free speech—but in the old-fashioned way: by scratching out pamphlets with a quill pen and handing them out on the street.
From Slate ● May 8, 2024
Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, Love Story is a "quill pen" song where "the words and phrasings are antiquated" like "a letter written by Emily Dickinson's great grandmother while sewing a lace curtain".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2022
Throughout the gallery, modern “relics” were on display — Charles Dickens’s quill pen, Queen Victoria’s stocking, a blanket and pillow from Freud’s couch.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
“It wasn’t all done with a quill pen and flourish of poetics.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
I had invented a quill pen out of a peacock feather, but stopped writing with it when I saw that it waved like a one-eyed slough plant.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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