swan-quill

As he wiped his gold pen, with its swan-quill holder, and laid it down, he said: 61

A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage 1921

As he wiped his gold pen, with its swan-quill holder, and laid it down, he said:

A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Bok, Edward 1921

As he wiped his gold pen, with its swan-quill holder, and laid it down, he said:

A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Edward William Bok 1896

"Want you, boy?" was the reply, as the speaker held up a large white swan-quill pen on a level with his sun-browned and reddened nose.

The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870

Procure two silver pipes, each about an inch long, in the form of funnels, wide at top, with a tail beneath, the former something wider than a swan-quill, and the latter less than a small crow-quill.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The shopkeeper of Liege and Verviers, whose house in the town is the model of comfort and cleanliness, resorts with his wife and children to one or two rooms in a miserable country village to enjoy the sport he has been preparing with their help during the long evenings of the preceding winter, in the course of which he has made as many as from 5000 to 10,000 horsehair springes and prepared as many pieces of flexible wood, rather thicker than a swan-quill, in and on which to hang the birds.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

I have brought you a quire of paper and one of Mr. Gillott's swan-quill pens and a penny ink-bottle. "

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849