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  • noun Alternative spelling of ink bottle.

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Examples

  • When the fox quietly left, Mayumi opened it and found old parchment, a brush and an inkbottle.

    Arcana Magi Pure - c.5 H-M Brown 2011

  • He rushed to a shelf, took down a book and a box of paper, then rushed back to get a pen and inkbottle, and sat in the chair to write.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • There was a chamber behind the dining-room in which there was an inkbottle, and if there was a letter to be written, let the writer go there and write it.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • Or the inkbottle I suggested with a false stain of black celluloid.

    Ulysses 2003

  • She took a pen from the small wooden writing case she always carried, reached toward the stoppered inkbottle in its scabbard.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

  • "Let it alone," says Zotique, and he looks around and takes up the inkbottle carelessly from the shelf and goes off to the kitchen and down into the cellar, where he puts away the wine, and then he comes back to us, upstairs.

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • Or the inkbottle I suggested with a false stain of black celluloid.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I could be sworn that neither Captain Branscome nor Mr. Rogers carried an inkbottle.

    Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • This generous phalanx of supporters, and a few others of independent judgment, whose own domestic experiences had been not without vicissitude, came up and warmly shook hands with Phillotson; after which they expressed their thoughts so strongly to the meeting that issue was joined, the result being a general scuffle, wherein a black board was split, three panes of the school windows were broken, an inkbottle was spilled over a town-councillor's shirt front,

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • If he moves near the desk I will upset the inkbottle.

    The Case of the Registered Letter Auguste Groner 1889

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