goose-quill

Jamie's long fingers played with a goose-quill on the desk.

Sick Cycle Carousel

Inquire of that honourable and learned gentleman, whose last public act was to cast aside the grey goose-quill, an article of agricultural produce, and take up the pistol, which, under the system of percussion locks, has not even a flint to connect it with farming.

Miscellaneous Papers

I confess I do not write with a goose-quill winged with two feathers; and if they will need make it my fault, I must answer them with that of Euripides to Alcestides, a tragic writer:

The White Devil

On looking round I did feel that my antiquated goose-quill and rusty-looking inkstand were rather out of place.

The Englishwoman in America

Old Guy is griping to me about kids just out of diapers sitting at computers, while he still remembers how to trim a goose-quill and make oak-gall ink...

When autumn leaves start to fall

As, however, she lighted me towards the miserable hovel into which they had crammed our unlucky steeds, to regale themselves on hay, every fibre of which was as thick as an ordinary goose-quill, she plainly showed me that she had another reason for drawing me aside from the company than that which her words implied.

Rob Roy

Sir Anthony laughed, his hands toying idly with a goose-quill.

Ill Met By Moonlight

Cashel brought the staff down as an iron-shod club, jolting the creature's head to the side even as another arrow punched to the goose-quill fletching in the soft skin of its throat.

Lord of the Isles

For a long moment he paused, considering, the feathery end of the gray goose-quill tickling his lips.

Calde of the Long Sun

The quotes were written with a real quill pen, not metal, but a goose-quill; you can see how the nib has worn down on the longer piece by the time she reached the end of the quote.

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