quill driver

How to use quill driver in a sentence

• What d'you mean by printing such awful doggerel as this, you depraved and dissolute ink-slinger—you imbecile quill-driver, you!

  Out of the Hurly-Burly | Charles Heber Clark

• "No more is the manager of this theater a judge of such things," cried the outraged quill-driver, bitterly.

  Peg Woffington | Charles Reade

• So the gods had given him the pen, and he was a writer—not a secretary, but a humble quill-driver.

  Concerning Animals and Other Matters | E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

• Isn't it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver's vengeance?

  A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen

• He must, in a word, be as methodical in his accounts as any quill driver ashore.

  The Lady of Lynn | Walter Besant