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Sentence Examples For example, since the porcupine quillwork was taking much too long, they decided to use a combination of quills and beads. That's hard to imagine, given the creature's resistance to domestication and its propensity for using its quills to keep humans away. Usually when approached these spiky creatures stop and raise their quills in defence as they dig themselves into the ground. They were decorated with porcupine quills, cut fringes, and simple geometric designs often colored with earth pigments. As is the case with North American porcupines, the quills are loosely attached but can't be thrown or otherwise projected. A porcupine road kill between Yellowknife and Hay River provided a good quantity of quills to start off with. Yet display can also conceal, as the raised quills of a porcupine disguise the vulnerability and true size of its actual body. The quills are so lightly fixed to the porcupine's body that they are easily detached and left imbedded in the attacker. Remember, this was a time of horse and buggy, feather quills and the most sophisticated appliance in the family home would've been an oil lamp. For example, the porcupine is defenseless except for its quills, the deer vulnerable except for its speed. A sealed inkwell sat beside a small wooden box, just large enough to hold a few quills. His cool character gradually starts to crumble, however, as his precious writing quills are taken away. Clearly a master of her modest medium, she folds paper into facets, quills it into curlicues and cuts it into intricate, lacelike filigree. I could certainly do something simple with pasta quills and a can of plum tomatoes. The quills are so lightly fixed to the porcupine's body that they are easily detached and left embedded in the attacker. When the quills begin to loosen, the bird removes them and is then ready to care for the new feathers. Throughout our period various breeds of birds were used to supply different quills, including duck, goose, swan and pheasant. The clothing is made from white caribou hides and sewn with sinew, using split bird quills on the seams. By the way, they're born with soft quills, and the quills harden up within about six to eight hours after birth. We were especially careful in excluding specimens in molt by checking all specimens for the presence of feather quills. Show More Sentences In one arm, he cradled a stack of books, and in the other, a leather satchel full of feather quills and dozens of tiny glass bottles. And there it was, in plain sight by the door, with a small knife, the kind used to sharpen quills, hanging next to it. Writers look to their quills, while painters care for horsehair and camel with as much care as palette and pigment. I'd used quills before, and would much rather use a ballpoint or even a modern calligraphic pen. The quills are not poisonous, the wound becomes septic simply because of the dirt on the quills, and bacteria always thrive where there is dirt. Among the most beautiful objects depicted are those with woven porcupine quills dyed many colors. Once inspected, the quills are packed into neat, 100-pound bundles before being graded and sold. Now the quills, they rattle their quills if they are being alarmed. Miss Acacia really exists. No, she doesn't have quills on her body, but in her head, she does. Will cheques have finally gone the way of quills and inkpots in favour of one-click or contactless payments? This shape cartridge is filled with correspondence themed images such as stamps, quills, inkpots, and flourishes. It is, for instance, common to find these owls riddled with porcupine quills or reeking of skunk scent. The figure surmounting the quills represents an unidentified flying object, about which Mr. Colombo has written. Second, Skins and furs were used to make clothing while sinew was used in lieu of nails and porcupine quills to make snowshoes. The large branches had been piled along the roads with the ends facing the road and the leaves or the quills had all rusted and turned brown. Porcupine quills dyed in white, orange, black and green or blue have been applied in a zigzag pattern. It minces menacingly through the tall grass, flicking the quills on its head and examining the ground lopsidedly for just the right morsel. Mahalo suffered the worst of the attack, and required extensive surgery in Saskatoon to remove the quills, which had pierced her heart and lungs. To be used for quilling, the quills need to be dyed and then flattened using either the fingernails or teeth. My heart was racing, my hands felt like they were covered with porcupine quills. Show More Sentences This heart-shaped pincushion is made of cotton, porcupine quills, glass beads and silk ribbons. Also suitable for direct application with paintbrushes, quills, stencils and stamps. So some 20 or so scribes remain, having traded quills for pens and pens for typewriters. The latest feathers to develop fully are wing and tail quills, which are large, strong, and often specially adapted. So they burnt its quills, and roasted it on a stick, and had themselves a great snack. The counter spindle quills that are in line with the 6 main spindles can be traversed in the Z-direction. Its fame stems from its coat of quills, which keeps most enemies at a respectful distance. And even today, Aboriginal artists produce some of the best jewellery from bone, antlers, porcupine quills or other materials. Shelley may have sharpened his quills, topped off the inkwell. Although metal nibs are recorded as early as the 16th century they were not much used until the last quarter of the 19th when they began to replace quills. In anger, she attacks the porcupine, and her nose is filled with quills. Several days were then spent learning how to sew the porcupine quills into decorative motifs on the clothing and attaching the silverberry seeds to the fringes. The head, neck, and rump are protected by quills, the tips of which are covered with backwards projecting barbs which make their removal painful and difficult. In the 19th century, moosehair replaced porcupine quills in their work, and these expert embroiderers began producing different styles of embroidery with a variety of design motifs. Scat with porcupine quills is almost always a sure sign of fisher. Clothes were often decorated with coloured porcupine quills. Like their Plains trade partners, these groups painted their tepees, rawhide shields, and bags and containers, as well as decorating clothing and other soft goods with dyed porcupine quills and, later, glass beads. The quills can spell slow death to the most powerful timber wolf or the cleverest fox by dooming it to die of starvation because it is unable to eat, or by working their way into its brain. Instead, they used stone, clay and practically every part of the plant and the animal: roots, bark and wood, skin, bones, ivory, antlers, shells, hair, fur, feathers, quills, and tendons. Particularly sought after are the succulent leaves of water lily and arrowhead, for which the porcupine will wade out into streams and even swim, its air-filled quills helping it to keep afloat. Show More Sentences These items were often ornamented with quills and bird feathers, and men sometimes wore the scalps of enemies. Indonesian cinnamon is often sold in neat quills made up of one thick layer, capable of damaging a spice or coffee grinder. For example, Mexican is divided into M00 000 special, M000000, and M0000, depending on quill diameter and number of quills per kilogram. Chips are trimmings of quills, outer and inner bark that cannot be separated, or the bark of small twigs. It's good that I wasn't a wereporcupine, or his mouth would be full of quills. The main quills may be dyed, and then applied in combination with thread to embellish leather accessories such as knife sheaths and leather bags. Mahalo had quills that migrated up into her lungs and into her heart. This is a small pouch of tanned and smoked deerskin, ornamented with porcupine quills dyed in white, orange, black and green or blue, which have been applied in a zigzag pattern. Painted quandong, kurrajongs and acacia seeds and 'porcupine' quills were used to make necklaces, earrings and trinkets. Panels such as this one, veritable mosaics of coloured porcupine quills and birchbark, were sometimes sold to individuals or to furniture makers for placement right in the frames of tables and chairs. Their surfaces were ornamented with zoomorphic and theriomorphic elements set against intricate backgrounds of geometric meanders, spirals, and quills. One hagiographer compared him to a hedgehog bristling with quills. It was, presumably, the largest number of Indian tribes ever gathered. It was quite a sight: tribal chiefs in full regalia, and young and old with headdresses, beadwork and porcupine quills. This wrapping was then interwoven with more quills in a checkered pattern. The book repeats the symbolism of the crest, while quills in the form of a St. Andrew's cross link literature and Mr. Skene-Melvin's Scottish roots. The painful shock of receiving a dose of these quills causes an animal that touches it to recoil, allowing the porcupine time to waddle safely away. The hedgehog is a simple creature that does one thing extremely well: curling up into a defensive position, staving off threats with its quills, and not emerging until the danger has passed. Porcupine quills have been found embedded in several predators, including the coyote, cougar, bobcat, red fox, lynx, bear, wolf, fisher, and Great Horned Owl. He complements his use of mixed media, oil, acrylic, watercolour and gouache, featured in his abstract art, with traditional Dene materials like beads and quills. There are no quills on the muzzle, legs, or underparts of the body. Show More Sentences Wing quills are molted in definite sequence. The quills and guardhairs of porcupines are used for traditional decorative clothing. The laurel wreath symbolizes excellence of achievement while the lightning bolt and quills represent communication through writing and electronic means. Lakota women would harvest the quills for quillwork by throwing a blanket over a porcupine and retrieving the quills it left stuck in the blanket. He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Examples from Classical Literature The quill feathers include two groups, the remiges or wing quills, and the rectrices or tail quills. Expensive objects were paid for in grains of gold dust, which were carried in quills. The Macomb, for such they were, produced from their waist-belts quills closed at each end, which contained gold. What will be the ultimate effect of plucking geese's quills, and of the eider duck's abstraction of the down from her breast? There was an ink-horn, a box of pounce, some quills, and a sheaf of paper there. The strings were struck with quills, and gave a thin, twangling, or rather twingling sound. As he spoke, he went to the tall chest of drawers and took out paper, a bottle of pokeberry ink, and a bunch of quills. He's different from a reg'lar porcupine, because he can throw his quills in any direction, which an American porcupine cannot do. This, the stretcher of the cubital quills, is a very interesting muscle. The legs and the nose shall be embossed with porcupine quills. Each band bore as an ensign a spear or bow decorated with beads, porcupine quills, and painted feathers. In his youth One Eye had once sniffed too near a similar, apparently inert ball of quills, and had the tail flick out suddenly in his face. Among the broken mealies we found the body of a very old man, as full of assegai wounds as a porcupine with quills. Each distant thicket seemed a strange porcupine with quills of flame. I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin. This usually consists of a gray surcoat and leggins of the dressed skin of the antelope, resembling chamois leather, and embroidered with porcupine quills brilliantly dyed. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with quills What is the adjective for quills? What is the noun for quills? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words quillon quilling quillet quilled Quill quill quillwork quillwort Quilon quilt quilted quilter 6-letter Words Starting With q qu qui quil quill