goose-pen

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it.

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

This upright tradesman was attending to his business one cold day in May, 1803, soon after Nelson sailed from Portsmouth, and he stood with his beloved pounds of farm-house butter, bladders of lard, and new-laid eggs, and squares of cream-cheese behind him, with a broad butter-spathe of white wood in his hand, a long goose-pen tucked over his left ear, and the great copper scales hanging handy.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Mr.. Pullet observed that the child might come to a worse end if she lived, there was no knowing; and Mr. Pullet reached down a key to the goose-pen as a likely place for Maggie to lie concealed in.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

As he approached Mr. Peck's barn, he beheld Al returning from the direction of his goose-pen.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

_Sir Toby_: -- 'Let there be gall in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen.'

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

QUOTATION: Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Quotations 1919

Mrs. Pullet observed that the child might come to a worse end if she lived, there was no knowing; and Mr. Pullet, confused and overwhelmed by this revolutionary aspect of things, —the tea deferred and the poultry alarmed by the unusual running to and fro, —took up his spud as an instrument of search, and reached down a key to unlock the goose-pen, as a likely place for Maggie to lie concealed in.

X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it.

Act III. Scene II. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

Then I fall from grace and call her a Broiler; and when, after some minutes of hot pursuit, I catch her by falling over her in the corner by the goose-pen, I address her as a fat, juicy Broiler with parsley butter and a bit of bacon.

The Diary of a Goose Girl Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862