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How to use inkstand in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word inkstand? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He regarded the man who had taught him calligraphy with such reverence that he would stand and hold the inkstand while his teacher worked.
I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom.
They were presented with an oak Derby roll top desk, an inkstand and a case of fish knives and forks.
Shaped like a fortified medieval castle with domes and a lighthouse-like tower, the case conforms glovelike to the elements of the inkstand.
She took her pen from its inkstand and opened the diary to its first, blank page.
He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
Thumb and forefinger pressed together, as if to urge the top on, the boy dreams awhile before settling down to the books and the inkstand he has pushed to one side.
Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss?
This cylindrical inkstand was used as writing tool.
These were mixed with a number of Indian account-books and an inkstand, so that I concluded I had stumbled on the bedroom of my friend Mr. Wilson, the postmaster.
I beg your pardon for being here. I come to look for you, and after waiting a little while in hope of your coming in, was making use of your inkstand to explain my errand.
Examples from Classical Literature
Unfortunately, the inkstand top was made to dip pens in, and not to dip paws.
By three o'clock they were finished, and she counted them and laid them beside the inkstand.
However, open the inkstand, and put the pen on the table, and he will write!
In the Visayan story Bathala makes the crow black by hurling an inkstand at it.
There was an empty inkstand there also, and a carafe of water with a glass by it.
The table appointments are among the collectable curios of the library, and prominent among these is the inkstand.
Always the eraser and the sandarac, the same inkstand, the same pens, and the same companions.
Litton cried, raising the only missile he could find, an inkstand.
So nothing came of these trials, land Jo corked up her inkstand, and said in a fit of very wholesome humility.
I beg your acceptance of an inkstand, made with a Russian grapeshot.
There were two or three games and there was a beautiful little writing-case with a gold monogram on it and a gold pen and inkstand.
Silver inkstand of enormous size, holding about a thimbleful of ink.
Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart.
The room had an inkstand already, but it was of glass, and modern.
The cut above, besides an inkstand, represents an open book.
Then he rose, picked a pen from the inkstand, and dipped it in the ink.
With the round top of an inkstand and two broken bits of sealing-wax he is silently and slowly working out whatever train of indecision is in his mind.
On her way out, she noticed a table in a corner, with an inkstand and a paper-case on it, and tried, without attracting his attention, to take the writing materials away.
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