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Sentence Examples I have found a cork on quill Avon float to be perfect for the job of presenting a moving bait. It may be used with the feather of a quill, to colour meats, such as the upper part of fricandeaux, and to impart colour to sauces. I was actually stuck with a porcupine quill once and had to go to the hospital to get it out. These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head. You make a hole in the shell of an egg, run the white into a cup, and then froth it with a quill. She rummaged through it and pulled out a thick leather bound book, a feathered quill and a small pot of ink. Lowering his quill once more, the ink trailed in a continuous line, curving and twisting on the paper. Holly dipped the quill into a golden inkwell near the till and filled in her name, address and school onto the little card. A business-like quill stands in an inkwell built into an ingenious drawer of her slender rosewood desk. A fifteenth-century observer described artist's brushes made of miniver fur mounted in quill handles. After fumbling a moment he unlatched the door and it swung slackly open, the quill between the bars following it out. The diarist John Evelyn describes Bacon at ease in his garden accompanied by a servant with inkhorn and quill to record his thoughts. She pulled out a slip of blank parchment, a bottle of ink, a quill pen, and a jar of writing dust. He was outlining a curve in black ink with a quill pen when someone knocked on the door. Many of the versals are made with a quill pen and red and blue ink instead of a brush. The cork floated on the surface, its quill upright like the periscope of a submarine. He has speared one of the sardines with the quill and is spinning it back and forth, spraying sardine oil. Ink-blemished fingers ensnared a quill, which in turn was poised over a leather-bound tome. Drilling for the takedown screw must be done with a milling machine, or at the minimum on a good drill press with a rigid quill. She picked up the quill Ady offered her and signed the paper, returning the clipboard. Show More Sentences Look hard and you may see an eagle soaring on the thermals above you, or find a black-banded porcupine quill lying on the path at your feet. Outside the banquet hall there was a small oak table, upon which rested a yellowed parchment and a droopy quill of some exotic bird. The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book. Any suitable material may be used, including quill, parchment, wood, ivory, bone, horn, tortoiseshell, and plastic. Red's legacy as the color used in correcting papers and marking mistakes goes back to the 1700s, the era of the quill pen. A candle sat on the left corner of the desk, next to which sat a quill pen, a blotter, an inkwell, and various other writing necessities. He also took a seat, and readied his materials, inking his quill and poising his hand. His head bent in deep thought, he bit his lip in uncertainty while lowering his quill to the parchment. All this might make you want to toss your computer into the nearest toxic waste dump and go back to writing letters with a quill pen. I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom. It is like demanding that students revert to quill pens and write in copperplate script. Feathers are cut to make quill pens that the students will write with, and hex signs are painted in the style of these traditional barn designs. Within minutes, his orders were executed and his secretary sat opposite him with his writing pad and quill. Then he pulled out a clean sheet of his stationary paper and took a quill. Edmund Morgan liked, especially, to teach his students how to make and sharpen a quill. The red pen, a calamus, was employed primarily for recording texts up until the 6th century, when the quill, the penna, the feather of a bird or a fowl, gradually replaced it. His tools were quill pens cut from large feathers, and ink made from oak galls, iron, and gum arabic, often with a colorant such as logwood added to the initially pale ink. Until the mid-19th century, quill pens dipped into inkpots were widely used for writing. A mechanism allows the quill to move backwards in order to keep the string from being hit a second time when the jack drops back into place. Only a writer with his quill poised over blank paper has thoughts leap into such instant effectuation. Show More Sentences About 0.6 cm from the tip, the quill tapers to a fine point closely covered by several dozen small black barbs. Each quill is conspicuously marked with black and white bands. Now no-one's suggesting that we all go back to the old leather bound ledgers, with the day's business written in copperplate with a feather quill. Filled with misery, he removed a roll of blank paper from the pocket of his robe, and slowly he began to write, using the quill pen he always kept with him. The degree of atomization depends on the use and location of the steam quill, on the steam pressure, and on the viscosity of the oil. Bruce doesn't burn the midnight oil, slaving away over his desk with the quill pen into the early hours then? With Ms Epstein wielding the quill pen, it was not an old, learned, respectable bald head that would edit and annotate the lines. The thorn branch is a canting reference to Thornton, and the quill pen represents Mr. Thornton's writing. The mid-nineteenth century gravestone and quill represent Mr. Southcombe's interests in documenting and preserving the history of cemeteries. The overall length of the quill can now be cut down to a manageable size. The second feature involves a quill and inkwell that will also be featured on the front of the note. This remarkable woman's wool jacket features a striking embellishment of colourful porcupine quill embroidery. Now the rules of Aristotelian poetry have been violated frequently, even by authors who still operated with a quill in producing their texts. That an independent Scotland died at the quill rather than at the sword explains why it was never wholly dissolved into the British state. Each time the conventioneers set to work you can feel them mentally posing for their portraits, quill pens in hand. The MS40P in quill configuration offers you 18 tool carriers each of which can hold up to 3 tools. The main driveshaft assembly remained attached to the engine and transmission input quill assembly. About a dozen species have been identified and not all look like the old-fashioned quill pens from which they take their name. Dipping the quill into a marble inkhorn, he leaned over the journal. He stood his quill pen in a rack on the desk, beside an inkwell. Show More Sentences Airen was waiting on Pier Seven the next morning, her satchel resupplied after having spent the last of her savings from home on quill pens, ink, and parchment. The judge will refrain from any references to his quill, or his gavel, or his pikestaff, and allow the defendant to be released to spread its insidious gospel. He replaced his quill in the inkwell and again looked up at the two. Lincoln sits just left of center, proclamation and quill in hand. This condition contributed to the blockage of the oil passage feeding the bearings and caused the catastrophic failure of the input quill bearings. Examples include elephant ivory carvings and jewelry, tortoise and turtle shell accessories, big cat skins, reptile skin handbags, belts and shoes, porcupine quill coasters and lampshades, coral and shells, and many more. Precision-ground and balanced quill runs on lubricated ball bearings. Imperious without being pretentious, it embodies with extreme sensitivity the indescribable grandeur of what was just becoming the Renaissance style, hesitating between the quill and the sword, between sobriety and glamour. With a processor? an electric typewriter? a quill? longhand? Prints were placed in frames decorated with lace and crocheting made by the mistress of the house or with the beading and porcupine quill embroidery sold by Aboriginals. Excellence of achievement is symbolized through the use of the laurel wreath, while the quill pens and the lightning bolt represent communication through writing and electronic means. Their quill feathers are not soft like those of other owls, so they make a swishing sound as they fly. In the centre are two quill pens forming a diagonal cross with a lightning bolt placed over them vertically, framed within a leaf of laurel held at the base by a maple leaf. Prior to the red flag logo, the party had used a modified version of the classic 1924 shovel, torch and quill emblem. Then inks had to be made from oak galls and other ingredients, and the books had to be hand written by monks using quill pens. With quill pen in his right hand and an inverted copy of The Rights of Man in his left, it occupies a prominent spot on King Street. Waugh disliked modern methods of transportation or communication, refusing to drive or use the telephone, and writing with a quill pen. For example, Mexican is divided into M00 000 special, M000000, and M0000, depending on quill diameter and number of quills per kilogram. Its coat of arms includes a maple leaf, a laurel wreath for journalistic excellence, and a quill and lightning bolt to symbolize written and electronic communication. Ganesh appears in some unofficial versions of the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic, as a scribe, whose quill pen breaks in his haste to record the poem as a sage recites it. Show More Sentences True, few contain roll-top desks and feather quill pens anymore, but so what? After gluing these cloisons, or compartments, on a gold plate, the demanding task of soldering the wires begins: the craftsman then places the enamel in each cell using a goose quill. An inkwell and a quill on the desk symbolise the writer's occupation. This region saw a development of trade in peltry-wares, the northern inconnu, fossil ivory, fish glue, quill, shelf fungus, boats, fur clothing, and other goods. The cable is unplugged and the old head is released from the quill. Each quill is hollow and embedded in the skin, where it is attached to a small muscle that pulls it upright in the fur when the animal bristles with alarm. The PH20's design means no air supply is required, and it can be mounted to the CMM quill either directly or via a shank using a range of mounting adaptors. Nothing in this article is to be construed as a neo-Luddite plea for a return to some ancient status quo of quill pens, ink stands, and parchment. The original charters were written on parchment sheets using quill pens, in heavily abbreviated medieval Latin, which was the convention for legal documents at that time. Examples from Classical Literature The other, unvanquished but indignant, withdrew slowly, with every quill on end. This instrument is quilled with crow quill, the most common material used for plectra at that time. The primary and secondary quill feathers are yellowish, with a tinge of rufous. The quill feathers include two groups, the remiges or wing quills, and the rectrices or tail quills. One is a kind of harp, held between the left arm and the side, and played with one hand by means of a quill or plectrum. These grievances, and much more, illegibly scrawled on foreign paper, with a quill pen. A history of embroidery from the quill and beadwork of the American Indians to the artistic achievement of the present. The best instruments are the trocar and canula, but in the absence of these a pocket knife and goose quill may be made to answer. With much promptness the canula or the quill should be pushed down into the paunch and held there till the gas escapes. The uncial characters shown here afford one of the best examples61 for practice in writing with the reed or quill. The instrument here introduced is the cittern, played with or without a plectrum or quill. The quill should be split with the point of a small, sharp knife, the feather being held on a cutting board. He pulled out the quill, unfolded the bit of paper, and read the few crudely written words the mountain man had sent him. Whereas once it relied on a quill and inkpot, now we use roller pens, spray cans, or smartpens to capture our thoughts. Then everyone saw that it was a blunted gray goose shaft, with a fine scroll, about the thickness of a goose quill, tied near to its head. When he flaps his wings or even moves a quill the thunder peals. And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars? The sibyl picked them up and wrote with an eagle's quill on each. There was no sound in the room but the scratch and splutter of his quill. His only nourishment was milk, drawn from a bottle through a quill. Show More Sentences He took up the pen again, and began picking the feathers from the quill in dead silence. His face was livid, large drops rolled down his face, and in his fingers he held the fragments of a quill pen which he had torn to atoms. Put the same feather with an ink-bottle, a book and a stack of writing-paper, and most men will swear they've seen a quill pen. A quill float is useful in weedy places, or about brush and logs. The Count walked to a writing-table near the window, opened his desk, and took from it several quires of paper and a bundle of quill pens. He knocked the interloping quill in the direction of its owner. The mandola was played with a quill like the mandolino and the cither. It has been designed to give the pavement the appearance of having been excavated to reveal Shakespeare's study, complete with desk, quill and inkpot. And he went on writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. I rejoice, however, to perceive that he wrote with a broad-pointed quill pen, and I can hardly doubt that we will find some impression upon this blotting-pad. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of quill? Words that rhyme with quill What is the past tense of quill? What is the plural of quill? What is the adjective for quill? What is the noun for quill? Translations for quill Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words quiff quietus quietude quiets quiet person quietness Quill quilled quillet quilling quillon quills 5-letter Words Starting With q qu qui quil