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- noun Obsolete spelling of
ink .
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Examples
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And I said vnto them: Bring mee some inke and paper, and I will write for you so long as we shall remaine here: and they did so.
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And I said vnto them: Bring mee some inke and paper, and I will write for you so long as we shall remaine here: and they did so.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At last the lover begs for mercy; he writes Venus a letter: "with the teres of min eye in stede of inke."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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This the trifling old woman declared unto the captive maiden: but I poore Asse, not standing farre of, was not a little sorry in that I lacked pen and inke to write so worthy a tale.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Thomas Bushell or some other of his Gentlemen, that attended him with inke & paper ready, to sett downe presently his thoughts.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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King's Hill, where the steward writes only with coals, and not with inke.
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While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, a young man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of the
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668
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This evening came a letter about business from Mr. Coventry, and with it a silver pen he promised me to carry inke in, which is very necessary.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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This evening came a letter about business from Mr. Coventry, and with it a silver pen he promised me to carry inke in, which is very necessary.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 23: July/August 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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This evening came a letter about business from Mr. Coventry, and with it a silver pen he promised me to carry inke in, which is very necessary.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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