goosequill

He reached for a goosequill, imported at considerable expense from Earth.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

Northern coasts of England and Scotland, being of a clear olive yellow colour, with a stem as thick as a small goosequill, varying in length, with its fronds, from three to twenty feet.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The king commanded his scrivener to come to him, and on the low wall overlooking the sea the man of inkhorn and goosequill laid his parchment, and wrote a letter to Sir Marhaus at the king's dictation, saying that a knight would battle with him in the morning.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

Seldom my goosequill, of goose from Germany, fatted in England,

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various

But he says when he cocked his hat, and put on a broad sword, jack boots, and shoulder belt, he did not know his own powers as a writer, he did not know then that he should ever be able to "demolish a fortified town with a goosequill."

English Literature for Boys and Girls

There was one book more, "positively the last," but she never gave up her pen, "her worn-out stump of a goosequill," until her physician literally took it from her feeble fingers.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

All along he was a jealous guardian of the "illustrious order of the goosequill," a sturdy champion of its claims to adequate pay and official recognition, a vigilant critic of the "homoeopathic system of rewards" adopted by the Crown in the Civil List.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

And it wasn't that ridiculous goosequill in her hair which made her cry either, though I am sure it must have hurt.

Little Grandmother Sophie May 1869

Creaking and pausing, the goosequill made large, stiff letters on the white surface.

The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

Creaking and pausing, the goosequill made large, stiff letters on the white surface.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867