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
In Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall showcases a circa-1420 guild headquarters and the very classroom where Shakespeare was a student, where visitors can try a quill pen.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
I pictured myself with a quill pen and parchment deeding some of my baseball cards to a childhood friend I hadn’t seen since I was 9.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2017
She seized a quill pen and printed two lines on a scrap of the curly birch bark which the children collected to use in place of costly paper.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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