ink-stand

There was nothing there that did not rouse some sense of pleasure; even her ink-stand was the coming accomplice in the pleasures of correspondence; for she would now have letters to read and answer.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

There is her silver ink-stand, the little table her father left her on which she wrote (it had belonged to his mother before him).

Castle Rackrent 2006

Arab Sheikhs daily take their seat, with their ink-stand and paper, ready to write, for any applicant, letters, accounts, contracts, or any similar document.

Travels in Arabia 2003

She lit the taper in the ink-stand, and returned the letter to the writer.

No Name 2003

She laid the folio and her ink-stand upon the table, and made certain methodical arrangements for her labor.

Lodusky 1995

The thin-lipped man placed a sheet of notepaper on a table, and laid beside it a pen and a little ink-stand.

The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963

His manuscript, when fresh from his hand, looked as though a fly had fallen into the ink-stand, and then crawled over the page.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

After Henry Rayne had looked at the titles of several books, and gazed vacantly at the paintings that decorated the walls, and raised the cover of a massive ink-stand just to drop it again, he made a bold stroke and began his subject as though it had only entered his head at that very moment.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

A few other books, bound in like manner, were lying on the table, with pens and loose paper and an ink-stand, among which were mingled files of papers purporting to be writs and deeds.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

No. He would have split his pen after his first tragedy; have thrown his ink-stand into the Thames; have taken the carrier's cart to Stratford, and there finished his days in writing epitaphs in the churchyard, laughing at Sir Thomas Lucy, and bequeathing deathless scoffs, to the beggary of mankind.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various