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With much promptness the canula or the quill should be pushed down into the paunch and held there till the gas escapes.— Clovers and How to Grow Them
There is attached to the cćcum an appendage about the size of a goose-quill, and three inches in length, termed the appendix vermiformis_.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
After the letter has been rolled up and inserted in the quill, the open end of the latter may be squeezed flat between two stones, heated sufficiently to soften the quill (see "Horn") but not so hot as to burn it, and then, for greater security against wet, the end of the quill should be twisted tight.— The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
In trying to form this mental picture we remember that when the air is removed the feather fails as rapidly as the quill, and thus we see that the air is the cause of the feather's rising; we mentally see the air pushing under the feather, and see it almost as plainly as if the air were a visible mass thrusting the feather upwards From a mistaken appreciation of the real process this would by few be called an effort of Imagination.— The Principles of Success in Literature

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