quill pen
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
“It wasn’t all done with a quill pen and flourish of poetics.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2022
That book’s famous frontispiece, showing Wheatley putting quill pen to paper, finds an echo across the gallery, in a copy of “Prejudice Unveiled,” a 1907 poetry collection by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2020
Frisch: Yes, so I ink by hand usually using brushes and technical pens, I do not like crow quill pen, like a dip pen.
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2017
While I was recovering from the fire, Mae and Birdie gave me a notebook, along with a sharp quill pen, a bottle of mirpetal ink, and several pencils.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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